Book Quote by M. C. Escher

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with…

— M. C. Escher

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an…

— Romesh Ranganathan

I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do.…

— Isadore Singer

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it.

— Jack Edmonds

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

— Gordon Brown

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

— William Thurston

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

— Steven Strogatz