Doe Quote by Hermann Hesse

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

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

— James J. Gibson

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and…

— Carroll Quigley

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

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

— Barry Mazur

The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its…

— George Sarton

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like…

— Tom Noddy

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell