Advice Quote by Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

— Francois Viete

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they…

— Anonymous

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what…

— Simon Newcomb

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only…

— Richard P. Feynman

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first…

— David Hilbert

I believe whoever wants to venture into the World of Science should firstly understand the purity of mathematics, for noone can live among Barbarians…

— Dielnov Muchati

“Plato holds a special place among them. His detailed interpretation of matter as a hollow space surrounded by regularly shaped bodies was too specific…

— Henning Genz