Voltaire Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

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

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

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.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. A man would perish of hunger and thirst, if he refused to eat or drink, till he had obtained positive proof that food and drink would be good for him. But in philosophic reflection this is not so. On the contrary, we must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I believe only in the mathematics.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.