Mathematics Quotations | Page 2

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.