Learning Quote by William Thurston

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation…

— Dusa McDuff

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

— William Thurston

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

— Mary Everest Boole

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or…

— Morris Kline

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

— Paul Dirac

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 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

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by…

— Cornelius Lanczos

Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.

— Anonymous

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

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