| "Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours." »Albert Einstein |
| "mathematics is the queen of the sciences." »Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| "The mathematics is not there till we put it there." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." »Bertrand Russell |
| "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon |
| "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." »Albert Einstein |
| "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." »Bertrand Russell |
| "If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." »Vannevar Bush |
| "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon |
| "mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform." »Bertrand Russell |
| "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." »H.L. Mencken |
| "mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." »Bertrand Russell |
| "By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." »M. C. Escher |
| "University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." »Isaac Asimov |
| "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." »Albert Einstein |
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