Athletic Quote by Freeman Dyson

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

— Edmund Landau

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

— Carl Pomerance

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

— George Polya

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

— John Urschel

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

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

— Martin Gardner

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

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

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have…

— Plato

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

— Novalis

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of…

— Chris Stein

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

— Ernst Mach