Isabelle Eberhardt on Mathematics
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Mathematics
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Jim Bishop on Mathematics
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Vannevar Bush on Mathematics
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 probabi
Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Plato on Mathematics
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Anonymous on Mathematics
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Bertrand Russell on Mathematics
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.