Supreme Mathematics Quotes

#1. Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

Tobias Dantzig

#2. Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

Michael Marcus

#3. Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

Stanislaw Ulam

#5. Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a balanced equation.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Bertrand Russell

#8. The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.

Robert Turnbull