Devising Quote by Ada Lovelace

I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that mathematical ideas…

— John Von Neumann

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

— George Washington

I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is…

— Roger Penrose

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

— Anonymous

“If mathematical knowledge is to have legitimacy, the mind must passively discover it (R5) without affecting it in any way; “mere delusion” results from…

— Lee Braver

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove,…

— G. H. Hardy

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of…

— William Thurston

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

— Ken Thompson

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions…

— Georg Cantor

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation…

— Georg Cantor

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

— Larry Wall

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

— Jaggi Vasudev