Just Quote by Shakuntala Devi

“It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing around numbers…

— Elizabeth Knox

“These marks, pay, book sales, figure etc etc are just numbers. There is life above them. Even this fact comes out in my book…

— Lovely Goyal

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of…

— Paul Auster

Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it…

— Gottfried Leibniz

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we…

— George Polya

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

— George Stigler

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we…

— John D. Barrow

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and even laymen…

— Shakuntala Devi

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with…

— Thomas A. Edison