Math Quotes

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  Rene Descartes

  Success, Witty, Humorous

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 2), 1637.

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• Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Science, Definitions, Conclusion

  "Linear Associative Algebra" (1870)

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• Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

  John Allen Paulos

  Teaching, Literature, Typing

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• As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

  Arthur Cayley

  Beauty, Theory, Mathematical Logic

  Arthur Cayley (1895). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley”

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  Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

  Isaac Newton

  Confusion, Simplicity, Facts

  Isaac Newton (1994). “Trattato sull Apocalisse”

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Neutrons, Proton

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• The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Language, Written

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker (p. 359), 1997.

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• "Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, White, Red

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.188, Race Point Pub

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• Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

  Lewis Carroll

  Knives, Division, Answers

  Lewis Carroll (1875). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.189

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• There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Book, Two, Pages

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• It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

  Sofia Kovalevskaya

  Soul, Impossible, Poet

  "Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood" by Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1895.

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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

  Funny, Humorous, Science

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• Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

  Hermann Weyl

  Creative, Mind, Language

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

  Georg Cantor

  Art, Higher, Values

  Doctoral thesis, 1867.

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• Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Queens, Arithmetic, Mathematics

  "Gauss zum Gedächtniss". Book by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, 1856.

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• Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

  David Hilbert

  Country, Race, Sensual

  "Mathematical Circles Revisited". Book by Howard Whitley Eves, 1971.

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• Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

  Joseph Fourier

  Science, Secret, Analogies

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• Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

  George Polya

  Education, Figures, Geometry

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• Number rules the universe.

  Pythagoras

  Numbers, Universe

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• Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Believe, Knowledge

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Knowledge, Science, Sensual

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

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