Algebra Quote by Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently…

— Freeman Dyson

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which…

— Adolphe Quetelet

Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible…

— David Hilbert

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn…

— Marin Mersenne

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry…

— Henry David Thoreau

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into…

— Plato

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

— John Von Neumann

Geometry is the most complete science.

— David Hilbert

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

— William Fogg Osgood

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky