Ability Quote by Paul Halmos

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a…

— Constance Reid

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in…

— John Hurt

To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion −…

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math…

— Jordan Ellenberg

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

— Maryam Mirzakhani