Rza Quotes

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

Truth does not demand belief.

One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.