The Best Quotes About Mathematics
A list of the best mathematics quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous mathematics quotes are at the top
N°1 : Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.
Simone WeilN°2 : A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Alfréd Rényi
N°3 : I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. Samuel Johnson
N°4 : May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? James Joseph Sylvester
N°5 : Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. Thomas Huxley
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