| Author |
Quotes |
| Aristotle | The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. |
| Arthur Cayley | As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. |
| Bertrand Arthur William Russell | Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. |
| Anonymous | Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. |
| Charles R Darwin | Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. |
| Eric Temple Bell | The Handmaiden of the Sciences. |
| Evan Esar | Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. |
| James Caballero | I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician? |
| John Von Neumann | Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | With me everything turns into mathematics. |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater. |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? |
| Max Wilhelm Dehn | Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. |
| Michael Crowe | Revolutions never occur in mathematics. |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Mathematics is written for mathematicians. |
| P W Bridgman | It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. |
| Paul Erdos | A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. |
| Philip J Davis | One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. |
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