Language Quote by Stanisław Lem

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of…

— Stanislaw Lem

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural;…

— Alexandre Borovik

“why is it that the simple, abstract language of mathematics can accurately capture so much of our infinitely complex world?”

— Pedro Domingos

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

— Keith Devlin

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

— Anonymous

“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

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...

— Lynn Steen