Blaise Pascal Quotes

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

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.

Programming is all about numbers.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape of the sun and the moon, they're circles, so every time you see a circular thing, there's pi embedded in it.

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.