“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.” HumansSpiritObjectsHonorMathematicsMathHuman Spirit Author:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.” PeopleKnowsHumansMeanUseFeelingsScienceSpeakLanguageGrowsWonderKnowledgeWonderfulBuildingClothesMathematicsPoolHuman ExperienceEcstatic Author:Steve Jobs
“For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.” IfsHumansArtKnownRiskDependsGeniusMathematicsPhysicsManifestationVocationFrustratingExtinctionMundaneSublimity Author:Charles Krauthammer
“There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.” HumansAgeThreeHuman BeingsMajorsIntellectualMathematicsChessPursuitFeatsPuberty Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“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.” HumansLawUniverseHuman BeingsUniversalMathematics Author:Paul Davies