Isaac Asimov Quotes

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

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

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

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

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

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

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.

My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

I always liked numbers.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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