Degrees Quote by Thomas Huxley

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get…

— Thomas Huxley

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

— Mark Kac

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found…

— Andrew Wiles

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

— Paul Lockhart

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

— Plato

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

— Conrad Wolfram

“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 a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

— John Edensor Littlewood

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

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

— Iris Murdoch

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone