Mathematics Quotes

1259 Mathematics quotes by 594 unique authors

Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as… — George Polya
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate… — George Polya
The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve… — George Polya
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful… — Unknown Author
Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather,… — W. W. Sawyer
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is… — W. W. Sawyer
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to… — W. W. Sawyer
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what… — W. W. Sawyer
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed… — Anne Shirley
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge… — David Eugene Smith
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and… — Unknown Author
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool… — Silvanus P. Thompson
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would… — John Tillotson
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. — George Washington
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. — Oliver Heaviside
The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it. — Oliver Heaviside
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic… — Eric Temple Bell
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the… — Eric Temple Bell
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that… — Marcus du Sautoy
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively. — Amit Abraham
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. — Edsger Dijkstra
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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