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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

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.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.