Children Quote by Edward Kasner

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human…

— Michael Loceff

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

“Puzzles’ are bound to arise for everyone, but how does the puzzle get solved, that much science if people get to know, it is…

— Dada Bhagwan

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind…

— Anonymous

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it…

— Harlan Coben

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

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

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

— Jordan Ellenberg

I'm actually really bad at puzzles.

— Kris Marshall

“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is…

— Paul Lockhart