Abstract Quote by Paul Dirac

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

— Mark Kac

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

— Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

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

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is…

— Hermann Weyl

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

— Eugene Wigner

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

— Salomon Bochner

“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

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts…

— Georg Cantor

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche