Math Quote by Robert Turnbull

Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

— Herbert Turnbull

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,…

— Robert Turnbull

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

“like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.”

— Daniel Tammet

“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…

— Johannes Kepler

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

— Paul Dirac

“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But…

— Paul Erdős