Calculating Quote by Archimedes

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

— Tom Lehrer

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

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

— Plato

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...

— Paul Halmos

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths…

— Seymour Papert

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

— Mark Twain

“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.”

— Terry Marselle

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.”

— Anonymous

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper