Affair Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one…

— Israel Gelfand

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

— George Washington

“Naomi doubted that any human being really understood math, they simply all pretended to have it down pat, when in truth they were every…

— Dean Koontz

“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?”

— Francis S. Collins

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”

— Bill Gaede

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics…

— Carl Jung

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be,…

— Paul Lockhart

“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one.…

— G.K. Chesterton