Able Quote by Aristotle

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

— Francis Cornford

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians'…

— James Henry Breasted

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

“Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and…

— Johann Georg Hamann

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different…

— Humphry Davy

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside