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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our…

— Bertrand Russell

“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But…

— Paul Erdős

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach us that…

— Savannah Yates

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

— Arthur Eddington

Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

— Herbert Turnbull