Bones Quote by Robinson Jeffers

On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind…

— Jean Dieudonne

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

“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

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries…

— James Luceno

“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

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles they're like…

— Tom Noddy

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson