There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad…

“Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.”

— Bill Bryson

Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested…

— Anonymous

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations…

— Sophus Lie

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it…

— Anonymous

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

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

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Rudolf Carnap