Top 66 Math Quotes

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Math is a beautiful language. It is both simple and complex. The greatness of math is that it cannot lie. With that in mind, check out the top 66 math quotes.

#66 – 60. Math Quotes

66. Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences. Roger Bacon

65. Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance of mathematics resides precisely in the fact that it is an art; by informing us of the nature of our own minds it informs us of much that depends on our minds. John William Navin Sullivan

64. Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. William Woods Worth

63. Mathematics is written for mathematicians. Copernicus

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

61. Mathematics is not just another language . . . it is a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. Richard Feynman

60. Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Henri Poincaré

#59 – 50. Math Quotes

59. Mathematics is the science of definiteness, the necessary vocabulary of those who know. W. J. White

58. Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. Edward Kasner and James R. Newman

57. Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very spirit of life itself. Claude Bragdon

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

55. “Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.” Carl Friedrich Gauss

54. Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.  Carl Boyer

53. Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer’s gaze. J. Sylvester

52. “The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful” Georg Cantor

51. “Where there is matter, there is geometry.” Johannes Kepler

50. Mathematics is the queen of science. Carl Friedrich Gauss

#49 – 40. Math Quotes

49. Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him. G.H. Hardy

48. Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. Cassius Jackson Keyser

47. Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof. Girolamo Cardano

46. Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. Bertrand Russell

45. Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. Plato

44. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” Albert Einstein

43. “It is not certain that everything is uncertain.” Blaise Pascal

42. Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. Martin Gardner

41. “I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.” Carl Friedrich Gauss

40. Archimedes: “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”

#39 – 30. Math Quotes

39. Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. Descartes

38. “If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton

37. Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself. Carl Jacobi

36. “A Mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician” Karl Weierstrass

35. Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. Benjamin Pierce

34. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” Isaac Newton

33. “No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.” Benjamin Franklin

32. Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe. Galileo

31. Mathematics is pure language the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms. A Adler.

30. “The advancement and perfection of Mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State” Napoleon

#29 – 20. Math Quotes

29. Mathematics is a game played according to certain rules with meaningless marks on paper. David Hilbert

28. Mathematics is an art of human understanding. William Thurston

27. Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Newman & Kasner

26. “Wherever there is number, there is beauty.” Proclus

25. Mathematics is on the artistic side a creation of new rhythms, orders, designs, harmonies, and on the knowledge side, is a systematic study of various rhythms, orders. William L. Schaaf

24. “Mathemathics is the queen of the science” Carl Friedrich Gauss

23. Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.  W. S. A

22. Mathematics serves as a handmaiden for the explanation of the quantitative situations in other subjects, such as economics. H. F. Fehr

21. “How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?” Albert Einstein

20. “The book of nature is written in the language of Mathematic” Galileo

#19 – 10. Math Quotes

19. Mathematics is concerned with “all possible worlds. D.M. Armstrong

18. Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. Carl Friedrich Gauss

17. “Do not worry too much about your difficulty in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.” Albert Einstein

16. Mathematics makes a nice distinction between the usually synonymous terms “elementary” and “simple”, with “elementary” taken to mean that not very much mathematical knowledge is needed to read the work and “simple” to mean that not very much mathematical ability is needed to understand it. Julian Havel

15. Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.  Morris Kline

14. “Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.” Rene Descartes

13. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius. Marston Morse

12. “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.” Plato

11. Mathematics is not a deductive science that’s a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don’t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. Paul Halmos

10. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” John von Neumann

#9 – 1. Math Quotes

9. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. Joseph Fourier

8. 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. P. Dirac.

7. Mathematics is a hard thing to love. It has the unfortunate habit, like a rude dog, of turning its most unfavorable side towards you when you first make contact with it. David Whiteland

6. Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. John Allen Paulos

5. Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell

4. Mathematics the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. Isaac Barrow

3. Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.  K. Shegel

2. Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas…But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate…the guide to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern. Lynn A. Steen

1.Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. George Polya

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