Benefits Quote by Keith Devlin

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

— Iris Murdoch

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as…

— John Arbuthnot

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

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and…

— Bertrand Russell

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that…

— Danica McKellar

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

— Anonymous

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or…

— Morris Kline

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take…

— Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne