Mathematics

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

—Maria Mitchell

Nobody listens to mathematicians

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

—Albert Einstein

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

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

—Bertrand Russell

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

—Carl Friedrich Gauss

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy—of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

—Frank Wilczek

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

—Johann von Neumann

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

—Plato

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

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