Mathematics Quotes

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.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

[of quantum mechanics] Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it.

I never could make out what those damned dots [decimal points] meant.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

Your entire life has been a mathematical error. A mathematical error I'm about to correct.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.