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“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

— Richard P. Feynman

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

“Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.”

— Bill Bryson

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

— George Polya

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

— Immanuel Kant

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

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

— Edward Kasner