Mathematics Quotes
Quotes about Mathematics
10 quotes
- “Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the w...” — Robert Langlands
- “Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questi...” — Donald E. Knuth
- “What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?” — David Eugene Smith
- “The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.” — David Hilbert
- “The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.” — Andrew Wiles
- “God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.” — Andre Weil
- “Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” — G. H. Hardy
- “Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.” — Leslie Lamport
- “Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.” — Hermann Weyl
- “Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.” — Mikhail Lomonosov