If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.
If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.