Certainty Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,…

— Anonymous

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Albert Einstein

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or…

— G. H. Hardy

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

— Wendy Lichtman

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

— Henry Ward Beecher

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

— Joseph Glanvill

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— John von Neumann

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this…

— Roger Bacon