Aspect Quote by George Polya

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of…

— Keith Devlin

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world. Mathematics was…

— John D. Barrow

Mathematics is often defined as the science of space and number . . . it was not until the recent resonance of computers and…

— Lynn Steen

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because either everything…

— David Berlinski

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

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

— Mark Kac