Delightful Quote by Vladimir Arnold

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

— Richard P. Feynman

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

— Martin Gardner

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of…

— Ivars Peterson

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of…

— Ivars Peterson

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

— Immanuel Kant

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

— Charles Darwin

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

— Steven Strogatz