Mathematics Quotes
Mathematics is a game played according to certain rules with meaningless marks on paper.
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.
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 things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn`t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard as well as clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
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.