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.
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.
Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
