Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so amazing. The rules that we set at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to […]
Pope Benedict XVI (1927-)
But if nature is really structured with a mathematical language and mathematics invented by man can come to understand it, this means that something extraordinary occurred: the objective structure of […]
John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
Mathematical knowledge adds vigor to the mind, and freedom from prejudice, superstition and credulity.
Aner Shalev (1958-)
I like […] freedom of mathematics. If physical or chemical studies must describe the real world. But in mathematics you can build your structures. You can walk in worlds created […]