#mathematics

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. ↗

— George Boole

#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#mathematics #should #such #thing

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#chemistry #early #high #high school #home

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#arts #arts education #college #education #had

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ↗

— Stendhal

#hypocrisy #mathematics #vagueness

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. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

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

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#first #mathematics #permanent #place #test

The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. ↗

— G.H. Hardy

#beauty