Albert Einstein Quotes About Mathematics
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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I don't believe in mathematics.
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.
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I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
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I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.
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God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.
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You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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