Infinite Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

— Lord Kelvin

“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.”

— Robert Burnham

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

— James Newman

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

— Edward Kasner

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use…

— Aristotle

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions…

— Georg Cantor

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very;' otherwise, you'll have no words left when you want…

— C. S. Lewis

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Our account does not rob mathematicians of their science, by disproving the actual existence of the infinite in the direction of increase, in the…

— Aristotle

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

— Henry John Stephen Smith

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

— Voltaire

You can't litigate math.

— John Fetterman