Mathematics Quotes
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn`t even ask.
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
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.
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that`s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don`t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large; but always something still smaller and something still larger.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.