The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
