Apex Quote by Alexandre Borovik

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of…

— Lynn Steen

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of…

— Stanislaw Lem

Mathematics is a language

— J. Willard Gibbs

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

— Paul Lockhart

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is…

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

— Keith Devlin

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot