Encounters Quote by Immanuel Kant

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

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

“Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its…

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

— Ian Stewart

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans