Haruki Murakami Quotes

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

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

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

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

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

Now I will have less distraction.

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

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.

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

My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.