Accounts Quote by Carl Gustav Hempel

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty.…

— Tom Stoppard

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe…

— Hannah Arendt

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous