Figures Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.…

— Vannevar Bush

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Some could say it is the external world which has molded our thinking-that is, the operation of the human brain-into what is now called…

— Stanislaw M. Ulam

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

— Maria Montessori

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise…

— H. L. Mencken

As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical…

— Max Horkheimer

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

— Kurt Gödel

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

— Plato

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind…

— Anonymous

What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the…

— David Eugene Smith