Escape from reality Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is an escape from reality.

— Stanislaw Ulam

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…

— John Arbuthnot

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error…

— John Arbuthnot

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

— Francis Cornford

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

— Jean Dieudonne

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid