Quotes on Mathematics And Science

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

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.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.