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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.