Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Carl Benjamin Boyer Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that? — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
