Immortality Quote by Anonymous

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

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be…

— Paul Erdos

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics, history sometimes…

— G.H. Hardy

“There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the…

— Robert Turnbull

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff