Quotes for All
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among real mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as useless as the theory of numbers. G. H. Hardy
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied… For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. G. H. Hardy
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. Edward Frenkel
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. Edsger Dijkstra
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts – into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics. Balfour Stewart
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein