Claims Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

— Stefan Banach

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key…

— Albert Einstein

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

— Albrecht Durer

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.

— Alexander Markovich Polyakov

[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who…

— Mark Kac

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key…

— Albert Einstein

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the…

— Alexander Markovich Polyakov

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant