Marcus du Sautoy Quotes

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Maths is the language of science.

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.

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

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

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

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

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

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

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

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

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.

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

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

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

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. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.