[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]
It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran LebowitzTags: humor education mathematics algebra
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria MitchellTags: theology mathematics
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Thomas MannTags: mathematics
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord ByronTags: miracles logic mortality probability mathematics
The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
G.K. ChestertonTags: poetry mathematics
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Alain BadiouTags: party communism mathematics geometry mao badiou euclid maoism
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
Albert EinsteinTags: mathematics
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
John ArbuthnotTags: science knowledge mind prejudice superstition math credulity mathematics vigour
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
Farkas BolyaiTags: science politics fate thought mathematics
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