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Mathematics |
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Quotations
 | Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
| Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 6 likes |
 | For me, everything in nature is mathematics. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 4 likes |
| In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 4 likes |
 | If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe. — Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian-American inventor 4 likes |
| Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
| The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 3 likes |
 | The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | There are no creeds in mathematics. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 2 likes |
 | It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe. |
 | Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty –a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |
| Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. |
 | Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. |
 | When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. |
| Nobody before the Pythagoreans had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. 25 centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. |
| We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies — such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later. |
 | What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? |
Funny Quotes
 | Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. |
Ancient Greek
 | God always geometrizes. Αεί ο θεός γεωμετρεί. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
 | Do not disturb my circles! Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε. — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor (his last words to the Roman soldier who killed him) 11 likes |
 | Let no one untrained in geometry enter. Αγεωμέτρητος μηδείς εισίτω. — Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy 6 likes |
 | There is no royal road to geometry. Μη είναι βασιλικήν ατραπόν επί γεωμετρίαν. — Eucliid, 4th-3rd cent. BC, Greek mathematician, the “father of geometry” (his answer to the king of Egypt Ptolemy, who asked for a shorter way to learn Geometry) 5 likes |
