Quotes on Mathematics By Mathematicians

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

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

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

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

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.