Action Quote by James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

— Francis Cornford

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and…

— Ada Lovelace

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

— Plato

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the…

— Rudolf Steiner

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

...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