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.
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Because I had to choose some teaching subjects, I chose mathematics.
The two subjects I loved were physics and mathematics, so I focused on those.
The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.
The golden age of mathematics - that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours. (p. 268)
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.