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.
The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master.
The function of logic in mathematics is critical rather than constructive.
The most important thing about mathematics is how it resides in the human brain.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
[T]he pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Great physics does not automatically imply complicated mathematics!
My conviction was justified: art, that which lasts, is based on mathematics.
Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.