Combination Quote by Hermann Hankel

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

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

— Lynn Steen

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is…

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is…

— Bertrand Russell

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

— William Wordsworth