Behalf Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

— David Malet Armstrong

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

“why is it that the simple, abstract language of mathematics can accurately capture so much of our infinitely complex world?”

— Pedro Domingos

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world…

— Brand Blanshard

“...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

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

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans