Bits Quote by John Horton Conway

“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated. I…

— Anonymous

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

— John von Neumann

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

— John Maynard Smith

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

— Anonymous

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— Anonymous

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

— Edward Griffith Begle

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

— Paul Valery

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

— Bertrand Russell

The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these…

— Marcus du Sautoy