Quotes on mathematicsQuotes on mathematics

• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein)

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. (Albert Einstein)

• Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform. (Bertrand Russell)

• 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. (Bertrand Russell)

• One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much.I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. (Richard Feynman 1918-1988)

• One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics. (Luitzen Brouwer)

• If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. (Paul Dirac)

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. (Eric Temple Bell, 1883-1960)

• The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. (S. Gudder)

• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. (Aristotle)

• The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. (Plato)

• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. (E.P. Wigner)

• One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers. (Heinrich Hertz)

• Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. (William Thomson Baron Kelvin)

• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. ( Freeman John Dyson, Missed Opportunities)

• Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. (Richard P. Feynman)

• Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform. (Bertrand Russell)

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