Advice Quote by Galileo Galilei

And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which…

— Galileo Galilei

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what…

— Simon Newcomb

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect,…

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

— Philip Kitcher

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

— Matt Haig

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.”

— Mikhail Lomonosov

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

— Frank Wilczek

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was particularly good at math and science.

— William Standish Knowles