Discovery Quote by Louise Bourgeois

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

— Stanislaw Ulam

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

— Bruce Schneier

Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens.

— Vi Hart

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which…

— Bertrand Russell

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have…

— George Bernard Shaw

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

— George Boole

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

— Jacques Hadamard

This is not mathematics; this is theology.

— Paul Gordan