Draws Quote by Delphine de Vigan

My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems.…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the…

— Paul Dirac

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be…

— Henri Poincare

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one…

— IU?. I. Manin

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

— Paul Dirac

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than…

— John Forbes Nash