Bertrand Russell Mathematics Quotations

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty

The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.