Mathematics Quotes
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard as well as clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn`t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
The things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.