Advantage Quote by Isaac Barrow

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for…

— Hyman Bass

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

— Rene Descartes

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe…

— Hannah Arendt

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

— Robert Musil

Mathematics is an escape from reality.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

— Mark Kac

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

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

— William Wordsworth

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