Civilization Quote by John G. Kemeny

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

— Woodrow Wilson

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this…

— Roger Bacon

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

— Edward Kasner

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

— Leonardo da Vinci

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But…

— Paul Erdős

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan