Arithmetic Quote by Vannevar Bush

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.…

— Vannevar Bush

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity…

— G. Arnell Williams

We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.

— Rebecca Goldstein

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are…

— Paul McCartney

“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

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

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

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

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

— Keith Devlin