Boundaries Quote by David Hilbert

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

— Carl Benjamin Boyer

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the…

— Paul Davies

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being…

— Rudy Rucker

I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn…

— William Thurston

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

— Isadore Singer

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

— David Malet Armstrong

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

— Mark Kac