Bows Quote by David Berlinski

“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.”

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

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

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very…

— Hermann Weyl

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

“A fighter, muses Rachel, is a fighter through and through, consistently irregular, a fighting man on every scale. Fractal, fractious, with a rough complexity!…

— Emma Richler

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

— Louis Zukofsky