Mathematics
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 EinsteinI have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
PlatoThe mathematics is not there till we put it there.
Sir Arthur EddingtonProof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur EddingtonWe used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Sir Arthur EddingtonMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand RussellMathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand RussellMathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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