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- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans
- It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
- For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza
- Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy
- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell
- In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler
- [Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams
- [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay
- Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong