Shakuntala Devi Quotes

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.

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

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

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

Maths is the language of science.

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

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

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

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

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.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

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.

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.

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

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

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

All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.