Body Quote by Charles Darwin

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

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

“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

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

— David Hilbert

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation…

— Nikola Tesla

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But…

— Paul Erdős

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for…

— Francois-Joseph Servois