Evolution Quote by John Maynard Smith

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

— Edsger Dijkstra

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

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

...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

You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no…

— Hermann Hesse

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

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

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

— Ernest Thompson Seton