History Quote by Henri Poincare

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

The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing…

— L. E. J. Brouwer

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

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the…

— Paul Dirac

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

— Roger Bacon

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical…

— Rufus Choate

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

— Lynn Steen

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

— Ralph Abraham