Mathematics Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old mathematics quotes, mathematics sayings, and mathematics proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. William Woods Worth
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression. Brian Greene
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. James J. Gibson
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Bacon
Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe. Galileo
Mathematics is the music of reason. James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. David Hilbert
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. Mel Brooks
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Henri Poincare
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Georg Cantor
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. George Polya
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. Georg Cantor
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Stefan Banach
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematics is the queen of science. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. Andrew Wiles
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. Marston Morse
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Carl Sandburg
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. Charles Darwin
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. Deepak Chopra
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. Edward Gibbon
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. Edward Kasner
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. Eric Hoffer