Adaptability Quote by Nicolaas Bloembergen

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 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

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

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

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture.

— Bertrand Russel

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects…

— Albert Einstein

“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals with the…

— G.H. Hardy