Insufficient Quote by Bruce Schneier

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

— Edward Kasner

“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

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

— Georg Cantor

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

— Georg Cantor

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject…

— John Arbuthnot

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

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

— Earl Nightingale

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

— Richard Hamming