Danger Quote by David Bressoud

“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

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

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

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use…

— Aristotle

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

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

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya