Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."
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Mathematics
369 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Archimedes
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded."
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer, Mathematician
"Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world."
Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
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"I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
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"Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty."
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"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
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"To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics."
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"Success is the result of hard work."
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"There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science."
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"Nature is written in mathematical language."
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"Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry."
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"Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning."
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"With me, everything turns into mathematics."
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"Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time."
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"There are no creeds in mathematics."
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"All mathematics is tautology."
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"Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false)."
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"When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science."
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"The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
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"Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap."
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"I would rather be right than rigorous."
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"The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
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"All science requires mathematics."
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