Quotes on Mathematical

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.