Causes 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

“OUR PERSUASION: Too many prophecies have already been literally fulfilled for any reasonable person to say that these things happened by chance. They happened…

— Oliver Greene

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

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

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

— Aristotle

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of…

— William Henry Houghton