Analogies Quote by Joseph Fourier

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.

— Joseph Fourier

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical…

— Rufus Choate

Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be…

— Ada Lovelace

Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific…

— Oliver Heaviside