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.
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.
4. Human mathematics is the cultural product of a community of rational beings.
In Copernicus' time Pythagoreans still believed that the only way to truth was by mathematics.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
11. There are no absolutely undecidable propositions in mathematics.
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.