Mathematics Quotes

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans– everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers.

Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Fellow, stand away from my diagram.

Always hated maths but now I can’t stop counting self-worth in numbers.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.