Description Quote by Karl Pearson

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

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

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

— James Jeans

“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries…

— James Luceno

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence…

— James Jeans

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our…

— Bertrand Russell

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort…

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Paul Dirac

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most…

— Charles Babbage

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell