Active Quote by Richard Courant

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements…

— Richard Courant

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is…

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

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 one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for…

— Hyman Bass

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

— Stefan Banach

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

— Deepak Chopra

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel