Analogies Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

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

— Oliver Heaviside

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 the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

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

— Lynn Steen

The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being…

— Rudy Rucker

To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion −…

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

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

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

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi