Accepting Quote by Abraham Robinson

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though…

— John D. Barrow

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things…

— Anonymous

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something…

— Ian Stewart

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know…

— David Berlinski

Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable…

— Henri Lebesgue

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are…

— Henri Poincare

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan