Action Quote by Michael Faraday

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and…

— Bertrand Russell

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort…

— James Clerk Maxwell

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of…

— Lynn Steen

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one…

— IU?. I. Manin

“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language, built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous system. Thus…

— John von Neumann

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of…

— Stanislaw Lem