Quotes about Math
- “The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience” ~ Immanuel Kant.
- “Numbers exist only in our minds. There is no physical entity that is number 1. If there were, 1 would be in a place of honor in some great museum of science, and past it would file a steady stream of mathematicians gazing at 1 in wonder and awe” ~ Linear Algebra by Fraleigh/Beauregard.
- “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry” ~ Bertrand Russell.
- “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house” ~ Robert Heinlein.
- “In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them” ~ John Von Neumann.
- “Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way” ~ George Polya.
- “The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life” ~ Ernest Renan.
- “Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state” ~ Plato.
- “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality” ~ Albert Einstein.
JEJAK ANDA
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