“We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don’t obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.”— Jordan Ellenberg
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.”— Carl Sagan
“Mathematics is a wonderful common sense,To understand the harmony in nature magnificent; The wondrous language, & popular in terms of @ financeIts’ unique, and abundantly rich in terms of substance,”— Priyavrat Thareja
“Mr Baley”, said Quemot, “you can’t treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain”.”I’m not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mathematics can be made to apply in either case.”— Isaac Asimov
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”— Y?ko Ogawa
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”— Georg Simmel
“If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.”— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“A mathematician is an? individual who calls himself a ‘physicist’ and does ‘physics’ and physical experiments with abstract concepts.”— Bill Gaede
“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”— Immanuel Kant
“This is the team. We’re trying to go to the moon. If you can’t put someone up, please don’t put them down.”— NASA
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”— G.K. Chesterton
“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”— Brian Greene
“If you can’t test it, it’s not theorics — it’s metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.”— Neal Stephenson
“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically… the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature… I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.”— Baruch Spinoza