First person Quote by Oft-Repeated Quip

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

— Simon Singh

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at the moment…

— Roger Penrose

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key…

— Albert Einstein

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.”

— richard feynman