Quotes

Mathematics is a game played according to certain rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert

2. Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

3. Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences. — Roger Bacon

4. Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself. — Carl Jacobi

5. Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.  — Isaac Barrow

6. Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. —  Carl Boyer

7. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.– Henri Poincaré

8. Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit — a think to be valued in and for itself like art or poetry.

9. Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. –– W. S. A

10. Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds.– John William Navin Sullivan