Aesthetic Quote by M. C. Escher

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

— M. C. Escher

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across…

— Martin Gardner

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

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

— Augusten Burroughs

More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it,…

— Rachel Riley

I think the biggest misconception about mathematics is that everybody has to learn it. That seems to be a complete mistake. All the time…

— Freeman Dyson

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Anonymous

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on…

— Nicolaus Copernicus