Math Quotes and Sayings

Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.

The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Math is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Round numbers are always false.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of math.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except that it be that men do not sufficently understand the use of the Pure Mathematics.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

2 is not equal to 3 – not even for very large values of 2.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Twelve for 23… It doesn’t take a genius to see that’s under 50 percent.

“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

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

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things ?

One can always reason with reason.

The longer math lives the more abstract — and therefore, possibly also the more practical — it becomes.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Math is the queen of the sciences.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

Math may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I don’t believe in mathematics.

Math is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

The essence of mathematics is its freedom.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It is as if mathematics were the vegetables of the academic dinner: Everyone knows that they are good for you, but no one forces you to eat them.

Math seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Pure Mathematics is the science of the individual object in as much as it is born in thought.

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.