499 quotes by mathematicians for you to enjoy

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes

Good Mind Enough Good Mind Main Main Thing Well Use Thing

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton

Art Enemy Tact Point Without Making

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton

Truth Truth Is Simplicity Confusion Multiplicity Found Ever Things

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. Isaac Newton

Light Solar Solar System Distance Earth Sun System Atheism See Proper Look Did Heat Happen Senseless Right Amount Receive Chance

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Isaac Newton

Action Every Equal Reaction Always Opposed

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

Truth Myself Great Me Trust World Ocean Before Finding Prettier Seem Only Diverting Lay Like Know Shell Boy Smoother Been Undiscovered Than May Ordinary Whilst Then Appear Seashore Now Now And Then Playing Pebble

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. Max Born

Truth World Evil Possession Oneself Only Root Belief

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes

Life Truth You Doubt Once Possible Would Would-Be All Things Seeker Least Real As Far As After Far Your Things Necessary

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton

Truth My Friend Aristotle Greatest Friend Plato

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes

Difficulty Resolve Feasible Divide Parts Many Each Necessary

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes

Good Conversation Reading Past Minds Books Finest Like Centuries

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. Isaac Newton

Success Me Only Powers Ordinary Application Brings

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics. Katherine Johnson

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

Truth Myself Great Me World Ocean Before Finding Prettier Seem Only Diverting Lay Like Know Shell Boy Smoother Been Undiscovered Than May Ordinary While Then Appear Seashore Now Now And Then Playing Pebble

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. Isaac Newton

Love God World Honor Made Parents Other Our Worship Ourselves Neighbours Temperate Beasts Brute Merciful Him Masters Governs Just To Love Us Even Peaceable

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras

Health Man Peace Will Men Long Animals Living Other Destroyer Ruthless Never He Massacre Know Lower Beings Each

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Richard Courant

Mathematics Construction Mind Will Active Analysis Logic Intuition Generality Perfection Individuality Contemplative Aesthetic Reflects Human Human Mind Reason Expression Elements Basic Basic Elements Desire

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