[The] sole end of science is the honor of the human mind, and ... under this title a question about numbers is worth as much as a question about the system of the world. Carl Jacobi
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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.<br><i>Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)</i>
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.<br><i>Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)</i>
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.<br><i>Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4</i>
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.<br><i>Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)</i>
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.<br><i>Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1834), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]</i>
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers. <br><i>Sir Thomas Browne </i>
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind. <br><i>Richard Dedekind </i>
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. <br><i>Rene Descartes </i>
[The] sole end of science is the honor of the human mind, and ... under this title a question about numbers is worth as much as a question about the system of the world. <br><i> Carl Jacobi </i>
When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it. <br><i>Lord Kelvin </i>
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. <br><i>Pierre-Simon Laplace </i>
There is nothing so troublesome to mathematical practice ... than multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers ... I began therefore to consider ... how I might remove those hindrances. <br><i>John Napier </i>
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself. <br><i>Plato </i>