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Beautiful and Inspiring Math Quotes
Anything you can do, I can do meta.
―Rudolf Carnap
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
―David Hilbert
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
—Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the music of reason.
—James Joseph Sylvester
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study mathematics.
—Francis Bacon
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
—Francis Bacon
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
—Augustus de Morgan
Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since one who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.
—Roger Bacon
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and repulsive to common sense.
—Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
The true spirit of delight is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
—Bertrand Russell
The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
—Henri Poincare
―Rudolf Carnap
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
―David Hilbert
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
—Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the music of reason.
—James Joseph Sylvester
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study mathematics.
—Francis Bacon
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
—Francis Bacon
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
—Augustus de Morgan
Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since one who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.
—Roger Bacon
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and repulsive to common sense.
—Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
The true spirit of delight is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
—Bertrand Russell
The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
—Henri Poincare
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