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.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.G. H. Hardy
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.George Polya
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.Henri Poincare
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Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. Iris Murdoch
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Isaac Newton
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The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.Israel Nathan Herstein
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.John von Neumann
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The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.John von Neumann
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It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.John Wesley Young
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Mathematics is the language of size.Lancelot Hogben
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
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Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.Leonardo da Vinci
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A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.Nikola Tesla
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The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.Norbert Wiener
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.Paul Halmos
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.Paul Lockhart
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.Plato
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightenedRichard Dawkins
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.Richard Dawkins
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.Richard Dawkins
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.Robert A. Heinlein
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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.Simeon Denis Poisson
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.William Shakespeare