Quotes

List of all quotes used in header on home page

Why, I have calculated it.
Isaac Newton
 
Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester
 
Mathematics is becoming too much of a machinery.
Augustus De Morgan
 
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
John von Neumann
 
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. Mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
 
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
André Weil

The mathematics in [the great Beatle records] is elegant.
Bruce Springsteen

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Eric Temple Bell
 
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns.
Godfrey Harold Hardy

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincaré

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract — and therefore, possibly also the more practical —it becomes.
Eric Temple Bell

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is distinctly more useful than applied.
Godfrey Harold Hardy

Mathematicians measure with their minds alone the forms of things.
Leon Battista Alberti

There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics
Godfrey Harold Hardy