Quotes about Mathematics
Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.
— Jordan Peterson
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
— Stephen Hawking
Speaking in math terms, they are one to the infinite power. Jesus said, "The Father and I are one
— Josh McDowell
Equations are the devil's sentences.
— Stephen Colbert
The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain scientific facts, and that higher knowledge is mathematics.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
— Stephen Hawking
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
— Tom Lehrer
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
— Aristotle
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
— Arthur Conan Doyle