Math Quotes
+30God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
- Anonymous
+28Twelve for 23… It doesn’t take a genius to see that’s under 50 percent.
- Anonymous
+26“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
- Anonymous
+242 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.
- Anonymous
+22The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
- S. Gudder
+22Math is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
- Anonymous
+20Math is like love a simple idea but it can get complicated.
- Anonymous
+20What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things ?
- Anonymous
+18The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
- Anonymous
+16One can always reason with reason.
- Anonymous
+14In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
- Anonymous
+12Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.
- Anonymous
+8For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of math.
- Anonymous
+3Geometry existed before creation.
- Plato
+3The more you know, the less sure you are.
- Voltaire
+3Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences.
- Carl Friedrich
+1Mathematics should be fun.
- Peter J. Hilton
+1God ever geometries.
- Plato
+1I do not teach, I relate.
- Montaigne
+1If there is a God, he’s a great mathematician.
- Paul Dirac
+1Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am.
- Descartes
+1There is geometry in the humming of the string.
- Pythagoras
+1Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.
- Roger Bacon
+1One person’s constant is another person’s variable.
- Susan Gerhart
+1Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
- E.T. Bell
+1Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein
+1The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.
- C. Jacobi
+1A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
- Plutarch
+1Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
- Dean Schlicter
+1Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
- J. H. Poincare
+1Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.
- D’Alembert
+1What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?
- Sydney Smith
+1Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
- Plato
+1We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
+1Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
– Stanley Eddington
+1Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
- Carl Sandburg
+1In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
- Johann Neumann
+1When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
- Erasmus
+1Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
- Albert Einstein
+1Circles to square and cubes to double would give a man excessive trouble.
- Matthew Prior
