Mathematics Quotes

There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Odd numbers are masculine while the even numbers are feminine.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That's the trend.