Accurate Quote by Arthur Mattuck

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

— William Thurston

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it…

— Ernst Mach

Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows…

— Haruki Murakami

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

— Novalis