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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

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

— Percy Williams Bridgman

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

— Keith Devlin

“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

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with…

— Charles Hermite

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove,…

— G. H. Hardy

“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at the moment…

— Roger Penrose

What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the…

— David Eugene Smith

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects…

— Albert Einstein