Cases Quote by John von Neumann

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.…

— Fritjof Capra

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before.…

— Augustus De Morgan

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota