For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger Bacon

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Andre Weil

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell

How is an error possible in mathematics?
Henri Poincare

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
John Pople

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
James Sanborn

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.
Simon Newcomb

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
John Pople

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew Wiles

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Martin Lewis Perl

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Stephen Cole Kleene