Goal Quote by Serge Lang

Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already…

— Saharon Shelah

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all…

— Saharon Shelah

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

— Hendrik Lenstra

Topology and number theory are my faves.

— Janna Levin

“mathematics professor in Russia slugging it out with another mathematics professor in India, kilobyte for kilobyte, over some stupefyingly arcane detail in prime number…

— Neal Stephenson

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like…

— Terence Tao

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

— Kedar Joshi

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.

— Ian Barbour

Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution…

— Aharon Katzir

The goal of science and engineering is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

— Anonymous

“What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence,…

— John Brockman

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

— Bill Nye