Christian Quote by Saint Augustine

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant…

— Saint Augustine

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth;…

— Saint Augustine

“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit…

— Saint Augustine

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of…

— Saint Augustine

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

— Paul Dirac

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“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

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

— Joseph Glanvill