Mathematics Quotes
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.
So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.
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.
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.
This is a mathematical universe. We are surrounded by equations and summations. Your life: the current state of your life and life itself is a direct summation of the equation you have created.
Outside observers often assume that the more complicated a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.