Mathematics – Quotes

The laws of nature

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. Galileo Galilei

But however measurable, there

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. Gabriel Marcel

This splendid subject [mathematics],

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking. G. Stanley Hall

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. G. I. Gurdjieff

The fact is there

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. G. H. Hardy

I propose to put

I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. G. H. Hardy

It is a melancholy

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians … Read more

[Regarding mathematics,] there are

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation. G. H. Hardy

If a man is

If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other … Read more