Critical Quote by David Hilbert

“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more…

— H.G. Wells

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler…

— David Hilbert

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

— Leo Tolstoy

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

— Edward Gibbon

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

— Hermann Weyl

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

— David Hilbert

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

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

— Mark Kac

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it…

— G. Arnell Williams