Henri Poincare Quotes

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

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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

Maths is the language of science.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

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.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

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

I love math.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

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.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

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

I love algebra. Love it.