Cases Quote by Roger Penrose

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

— Anonymous

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

— Casey Stengel

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on…

— Brian Greene

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between…

— Daniel Tammet

As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from…

— William Thurston

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

— Robert M. Hutchins

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding”

— Anonymous

“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

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— John von Neumann

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein