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“Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.”
Source: Mathematics and the Imagination
“Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.”
“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.”
“Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is one of the eternal truths and, as such, raises the spirit to the same level on which we feel the presence of God.”
“Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“Mathematics is Open Source.”
“Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.”
“Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.”
“Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.”
“Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“Mathematics is really an art, not a science.”
“Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.”
“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, to "turn the soul around from becoming to being."”
“Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.”
“Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.”
Source: One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology
“Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.”
“Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs-- you deny them mathematics itself.”
“Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.”
“Mathematics is the gate and key to science.”
“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”
Source: Architecture and Democracy
“Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.”
“Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.”
“Mathematics is the language of size.”
“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”
“Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.”
“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.”
“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.”
“Mathematics is the music of reason.”
“Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.”
“Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.”
“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
“Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”
“Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!”
“Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.”
“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank.”
“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”
“Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.”
Source: Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
“Mathematics is the science of patterns.”
Source: Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education
“Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.”
“Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.”
Source: Mathematics and the Imagination
“Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.”
Source: the Man Without Qualities
“Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.”
“Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.”
Source: Number: The Language of Science
“Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.”
“Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten”
“Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.”
Source: Sammlung
“Mathematics is unable to specify whether motion is continuous, for it deals merely with hypothetical relations and can make its variable continuous or discontinuous at will. The paradoxes of Zeno are consequences of the failure to appreciate this fact and of the resulting lack of a precise specification of the problem. The former is a matter of scientific description a posteriori, whereas the latter is a matter solely of mathematical definition a priori. The former may consequently suggest that motion be defined mathematically in terms of continuous variable, but cannot, because of the limitations of sensory perception, prove that it must be so defined.”
Source: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.”