Education Quote by G. H. Hardy

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

— Plato

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

— John Edensor Littlewood

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

— Socrates

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

— Francis Cornford

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”

— Eugenia Cheng

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

— William Godwin