Belonging Quote by Annie Besant

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and…

— Hermann Weyl

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

— Paul Halmos

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

— Haile Selassie

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

— Edward Gibbon

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as…

— Alexander Crum Brown

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

— Francis Cornford