math

It is though Nature herself is guided by the same kind of criteria of consistency and elegance as those that guide human mathematical thought.

- Roger Penrose

Euclidean geometry is not simply mathematics, it is a (fantastically accurate) physical theory of space.

- Tristan Needham

No matter how determinedly mathematicians ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.

- John Tierney

Combinatorics is the art of counting without counting.

- Frank Ramsey

In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won’t ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. That’s why mathematics is really my only interest.

- Paul Erdös

There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

- G. H. Hardy

If anything is certain, it would be mathematics.

- Paul Erdös

The best of science doesn’t consist of mathematical models and experiments, as textbooks make it seem. Those come later. It springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought, wherein the hunter’s mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh metaphors and the scrambled crazy images of things recently seen.

- Edward Wilson