Conquest Quote by Jacques Hadamard

For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the…

— Henri Poincare

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

...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

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

— James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point…

— Hermann Weyl

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation…

— Nikola Tesla

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key…

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

— Ernst Mach

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