"Although I am absolutely without training or knowledge in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." ~ M.C. Escher
"There are four great sciences ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics, which the saints discovered at the beginning of the world." ~ Roger Bacon
"Mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences." ~ Roger Bacon
"In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established, another undoes. In Mathematics alone each generation adds a new storey to the old structure." ~ Herman Hankel
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country." ~ David Hilbert
"When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." ~ Lord William Thomas Kelvin
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"There are four great sciences ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics, which the saints discovered at the beginning of the world." ~ Roger Bacon
"Mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences." ~ Roger Bacon
"In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established, another undoes. In Mathematics alone each generation adds a new storey to the old structure." ~ Herman Hankel
"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country." ~ David Hilbert
"When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it." ~ Lord William Thomas Kelvin
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic." ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz