The study of mathematics is apt to commence in…

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he…

— Francis Bacon

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

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

— Plato

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds…

— Hermann Hankel

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

— Benjamin Franklin

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led…

— Woody Allen

I was x years old in the year x2.

— Augustus De Morgan

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

— Hermann Hankel

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

— George Polya

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their…

— Albert Einstein