Accounts Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

— Armand Borel

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit…

— Saint Augustine

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant…

— Saint Augustine

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

— G. H. Hardy

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we…

— John D. Barrow