Math Quotes
- Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language. — Russell Malone
- My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell
- The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships. — Klaus Kleinfeld
- Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. — Rick Bayan
- I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. — Charlie Simpson
- The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. — C. West Churchman
- You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run… — Lewis Carroll
- Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. — Blaise Pascal
- Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig
- It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — John Wesley Young
- Questions are creative acts of intelligence. — Francis Kingdon Ward
- If there's no struggle, there's no progress. — Frederick Douglass
- [Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth
- Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Max Dehn
- Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. — Charles Darwin
- Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. — Henry John Stephen Smith
- Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. — Michael C. Reed
- Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. — Morris Kline
- You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht
- I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride… — David Mumford