Felix Klein Quotes

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

Maths is the language of science.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

I love algebra. Love it.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

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

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

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

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.