Quotes about Mathematics

Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Speaking in math terms, they are one to the infinite power. Jesus said, "The Father and I are one

Equations are the devil's sentences.

The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain scientific facts, and that higher knowledge is mathematics.

The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.