Mathematics Quote by Neal Stephenson

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could…

— Terence Tao

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though…

— John D. Barrow

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be…

— Stanisław Lem

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know…

— David Berlinski

“Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I don’t know if math is real in the sense that it’s woven into the fabric of the cosmos, or if it’s something that…

— Rivka Galchen

I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is…

— Roger Penrose

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such…

— Bertrand Russell

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock…

— Robinson Jeffers

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole