Determined Quote by Niels Henrik Abel

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept…

— Paul Halmos

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so…

— Leonhard Euler

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation…

— Georg Cantor