Famous Quotes

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

~ Albert Einstein

“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.”

~ Albert Einstein

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics”

~ Plato

“Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.”

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true”

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Bertrand Russell

“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics”

~ Roger Bacon

“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence”

~ Charles Caleb Colton

“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics”

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Other quotes:

“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes”

“Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.”

“Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas”