Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.