Mathematics Quotes
The top contributors are mostly people who wrote about mathematics: Jane Frances McDonnell, G. F. J. Temple, Stanislaw Ulam, Bertrand Russell and Morris Kline. The best-sourced lines, though, are by William Blake, filed here for the word infinity. They include “To see a World in a Grain of Sand” from Auguries of Innocence (1803) and the cleansing of the doors of perception in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790).
Three entries are flagged. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences” is credited to Galileo and marked misattributed. A line saying the highest form of pure thought is in mathematics is credited to Plato and disputed. So is the claim that the ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate any need for intelligent thought, credited to Alfred North Whitehead.
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
The very possibility of the science of mathematics seems an insoluble contradiction.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
Apparently, mathematics and the martial arts are not necessarily mutually exclusive.