Comprehensive Quote by Max Bill

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

— Baruch Spinoza

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,…

— Andre Weil

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and…

— Ada Lovelace

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always…

— Lisa Kleypas

We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing…

— William Thurston

This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due…

— Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it…

— Ada Lovelace

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of…

— William Thurston