Hermann Weyl Quotes

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

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

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I think math is exciting, you know.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.