Top 35 Math Quotes From World’s Brightest Minds

1. “A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.” ― Karl Weierstrass

2. “Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.” ― Anonymous

3. “Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein

4. “Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.” ― Dean Schlicter

5. Mathematics is the music of reason.” ― James Joseph Sylvester

6. “Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate, but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution.” –Anonymous

7. “It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.” – E.T. Bell

8. “I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea.” ― N.R. Narayana Murthy

9. “Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.” ― Marcus du Sautoy

10. “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” ― David Hilbert

11. “Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” – William Paul Thurston

12. “To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.” – Sebastian Thrun

13. “It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” Sofia Kovalevskaya

14. “What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.” ― Shakuntala Devi

15. “If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.” ― Snoop Dogg

16. “Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems — they love a challenge.” ― Andrew Wiles

17. “Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.” – Frank Capra

18. It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way – even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.” ― Andrew Wiles

19. “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” ― Shakuntala Devi

20. “Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” ― Stefan Banach

21. “Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.” – Anonymous

22. “A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.” – Charles Darwin

23. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ― Dr. Seuss

24. Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” ― Albert Einstein

25. “Mathematics is the music of reason.” – James Joseph Sylvester

26. “Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.” – Philippe Schnoebelen

27. “Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.” – Marcus du Sautoy

28. “Mathematics is the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs, a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.” ― Marston Morse

29. “Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.” ― George Póly

30. “Mathematics is a hard thing to love. It has the unfortunate habit, like a rude dog, of turning its most unfavorable side towards you when you first make contact with it.” ― David Whiteland

31. “It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way – even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.” – Andrew Wiles

32. “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra

33. “There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.” ― Raoul Bott

34. “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.” ― Stendhal

35. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” ― John von Neumann

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