Mathematics Quote by C.S. Lewis

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini

“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort…

— Adam Rex

Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or…

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

— Plato

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon