Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is…

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is…

— Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

— Eric Cantona

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to…

— Georges Canguilhem

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the…

— Emily Deschanel

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

— Rachel Riley

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

— Christopher Columbus

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap