Math Quotes

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If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line… — Nick Carter
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
Geometry existed before creation. — Plato
God forever geometrizes. — Plato
Wherever there is number, there is beauty. — Proclus
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can… — Leonardo da Vinci
With me, everything turns into mathematics. — Rene Descartes
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain. — Pierre de Fermat
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl
Projective geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind. — Richard Dedekind
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much… — David Hilbert
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. — Leopold Kronecker
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used… — Hugo Rossi
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should… — Rudolf Steiner
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws… — Rudolf Steiner
Mathematics is the music of reason. — Paul Lockhart
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion âˆ’ not… — Paul Lockhart

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