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Biggest Maths Mystery: . . Thousands of years passed, . . Millions of theorems derived, . Crores of formulae made, . But still... . . X is UNKNOWN & . . . XXX is WELLKNOWN....:0

— Chirag Jain

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of…

— Ivars Peterson

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

“An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.”

— Stieg Larsson

... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is…

— Bertrand Russell

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know…

— David Berlinski

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

— Chris Crutcher