Mathematics Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

31 Mathematics Quotes
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“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”
Bertrand Arthur William Russell Quotes
Source: Philosophical Essays (no. 4)
“Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.”
Evan Esar Quotes
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
Paul Erdos Quotes
“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
John Von Neumann Quotes