Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.