About Quote by Marcus du Sautoy

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They…

— Robert Musil

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

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

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

— Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers…

— Susan Hockfield

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a…

— Herbert A. Simon

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

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated…

— Stephen Wolfram

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb