Bases Quote by Francis Cornford

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

— Novalis

Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is…

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of…

— L. E. J. Brouwer

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the…

— Rudolf Steiner

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

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

— William Wordsworth

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester