11 Albert Einstein Quotes on Mathematics

Albert Einstein quotes on mathematics

39. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

70. Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

118. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

119. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

159. 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? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

160. One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.

161. 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.

174. I believe no woman could have invented calculus.

186. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

190. I don't believe in mathematics.

256. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.