The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth
Sometimes it is useful to know how large your zero is. – Author Unknown
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. – William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. – Bertrand Russell
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. – Gottfried Leibniz
How many times can you subtract 7 from 83, and what is left afterwards? You can subtract it as many times as you want, and it leaves 76 every time. – Author Unknown
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. – Harold Marston Morse
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. – Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place. – Author Unknown
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. – Tobias Dantzig
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. – Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule
The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. – Thomas Hill
I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness…. – Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. – Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically. – Albert Einstein
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. – Hilda Phoebe Hudson
[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. – Henri Poincaré
