Quotes
- Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. - Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
- Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. - Godfrey Harold Hardy
- God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. - Paul A. M. Dirac
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
- Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. - Albert Einstein
- If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. - John von Neumann
- There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. - Louis Pasteur
- Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. - Max Planck
- A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck
- Mathematicians never appreciate new ideas. - Israel Gelfand
- The science never accepts new ideas, it fights against them. - Mikhail Postnikov
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
- Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. - Hermann Weyl
- My work always tried to unite the truth with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. - Hermann Weyl
- Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. - Hermann Weyl
- It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. - Henri Poincaré
- Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? - Henri Poincaré
- If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. - Henri Poincaré
- Nature is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematics. - Galileo Galilei