Quotations on Mathematics
The reason that every university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.
-Anonymous
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
-Richard Feynman
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
-Rick Bayab
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
-Galileo Galilei
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 Einstein
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-Johann von Neumann

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