Difficult Quote by Hendrik Lenstra

The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I…

— John Edensor Littlewood

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

— Richard Hamming

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

— George Boole

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life…

— Morris Kline

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

— Anonymous

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Anonymous

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,…

— Andrew Wiles

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

— Chris Ofili