Discovery Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that…

— Mark Twain

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

— Daniel Bernoulli

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

“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

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and…

— Arthur Eddington

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

— Emily Calandrelli

To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without…

— Richard P. Feynman