Mathematics Quotes

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Nature’s economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for its eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.