Math Quotes

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

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

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Whenever you can, count.

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The solution of every problem is another problem

Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

I don't believe in natural science.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.