Accounts Quote by Eugene Wigner

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

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

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

— Edsger Dijkstra

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

— Aristotle

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we…

— Eugene Wigner

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

All science requires mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

“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

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne