The world is a mathematical,
not material structure.
-Werner Karl Heisenberg
Mathematics...would certainly not have come into existence
if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature
no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I see a certain order in the universe
and math is one way of making it visible.
-May Sarton
The task of future mathematicians
will be to collect their characteristics an analyze, where possible,
every number in its logical relationship to all others.
-Marie-Louise von Franz
Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
-Carl Jacobi
I used to love mathematics for its own sake,
and I still do,
because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
-Stendahl
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple,
it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
-John von Neumann
Mathematics is the supreme judge;
from its decisions there is no appeal.
-Tobias Dantzig
The laws of nature
are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
-Euclid
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation,
the sense of being more than man,
which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,
is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
-Bertrand Russell
Pure mathematics is, in its way,
the poetry of logical ideas.
-Albert Einstein
The mathematical sciences particularly
exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation;
and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
-Aristotle
The mathematical rules of the universe
are visible to men in the form of beauty.
-John Michell
Mathematics is order and beauty at its purest,
order that transcends the physical world.
-Paul Hoffman
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...
that whatsoever is the most beautiful and regular
is also found to be the most useful and excellent.
-D'arcy Wentworth Thompson
Go down deep enough into anything
and you will find mathematics.
-Dean Schlicter
Mathematics, in one view,
is the science of infinity.
-P. Davis and R. Hersh
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
-William Thompson, Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness
of the very Spirit of Life itself.
-Claude Bragdon
