Psychology Quote by Lee Braver

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right…

— Alfred Korzybski

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

— Moses Aaron Richardson

Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something…

— Ian Stewart

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is…

— Bertrand Russell

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot