Mathematics Quotes

Even a great mathematician is almost always unknown to the public. His "adventures" are usually so confined to the interior of his skull that only another mathematician cares to read about them.

Martin Gardner

The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.

Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.

Ian Stewart

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Among geometrical figures you will find every conceivable shape but nothing in the shape of a heart.

Mór Jókai

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

Henri Poincaré

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

The mathematician is born, not made.

Henri Poincaré

There is no royal road to geometry.

Euclid

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Henri Poincaré

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Henri Poincaré

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

David Hilbert

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

David Hilbert

All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

The essence of mathematics is its freedom.

Georg Cantor