I just wanted you to know these are my favorite numbers…

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

— Christopher Columbus

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

— Rachel Riley

“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the…

— Emily Deschanel

“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight”

— Bella Jeanisse

“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language…

— William H. Patterson Jr

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the…

— Jean-Baptiste Biot

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn…

— Mortimer J. Adler