Concepts Quote by Hermann Weyl

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman

Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

— George Boole

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

— Anonymous

Mathematics doesnt care about those beyond the numbers.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

— Thomas de Quincey

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers,…

— Hermann Hankel

All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.

— Emile Borel

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

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

— Anthony Doerr

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

— Leopold Kronecker