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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Author: Albert Einstein
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Author: Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Author: Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Author: Bertrand Russell, 1912
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Author: Carl Sandburg, ‘Arithmetic’
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Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
Author: Dean Schlicter
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
Author: Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
Author: Eric Bell, The Search for Truth
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Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
Author: Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics
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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Author: Euclid
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[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
Author: Evan Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary
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So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Author: Francis Bacon, ‘Of Studies’
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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
Author: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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I know that two and two make four – & should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Author: George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Author: Gottfried Leibniz
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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.
Author: Gregory Bateson
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