Adequate Quote by Mark Kac

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

— Bertrand Russell

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers,…

— Hermann Hankel

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it…

— G. Arnell Williams

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something…

— Freeman Dyson

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

— Roger Lewin