Rene Descartes Quotes

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

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

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

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

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

All science requires mathematics.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.