Certainty Quote by Joseph Glanvill

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit…

— Saint Augustine

“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can…

— Álvaro de Campos

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

— Albert Einstein

“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

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant…

— Saint Augustine

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

— Anonymous

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a…

— Saint Augustine

It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations,…

— George Santayana

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

— Paul Dirac

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth;…

— Saint Augustine