Appearance Quote by Jacques Ellul

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.

— George Polya

“In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the most important…

— Libba Bray

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

— Bertrand Russell

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

— Voltaire

“The System has played a trick on today’s would-be revolutionaries and rebels. The trick is so cute that if it had been consciously planned…

— Theodore J. Kaczynski

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

— Tom Cruise

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

— Georg Cantor

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most…

— Charles Babbage

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it…

— Ernst Mach

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves…

— Ada Lovelace