Abstraction Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it…

— John von Neumann

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

— Edward Gibbon

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

— William S. Burroughs

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

— Dan Meyer