Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

— Anonymous

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

Mathematics is as old as Man.

— Stefan Banach

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn…

— William Thurston

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of…

— John Arbuthnot

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

— Paul Halmos

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur