Abomination Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single…

— Steven Pinker

“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

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

— John Allen Paulos

“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.”

— Karen Armstrong

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

— Eugene Wigner

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

“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