Attention Quote by Charles Kingsley

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is…

— Bertrand Russell

One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight -…

— Hermann Weyl

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

— Robert Recorde

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

“The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might…

— Richard Hamming

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes