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.
You're not supposed to have equations in a public lecture, so think of this as a piece of art.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet of the soul.
The world sings of an infinite Love: how can we fail to care for it?
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
The idea that theorems follow from the postulates does not correspond to simple observation.
Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.