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We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central…

— John L. Casti

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

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always…

— R. B. Braithwaite

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without…

— Richard P. Feynman

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated…

— Stephen Wolfram

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity,…

— Timothy Gowers

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to…

— Alan Greenspan