Able Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

— Benjamin Franklin

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe…

— Hannah Arendt

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

— Vera Rubin

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

— Yann Martel

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but…

— Lazare Carnot

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

— Galileo Galilei

“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll