The 37 Greatest Math Quotes of All Time — Mashup Math (2024)

“Nature is written in mathematical language.”

“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. ”

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

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

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

“Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.”

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

“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.”

“I’ve always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.”

“I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.”

“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.”

“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.”

“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.”

“The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.”

“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”

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

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

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

“In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

“I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea.”

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

“Mathematics are 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.”

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

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

“Mathematics is the music of reason”

“Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.”

“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigor should be a signal to the historians that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.”

“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.”

“Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.”

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

“If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.”

“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.”

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

“Somehow it’s o.k. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said ‘I never learned to read,” they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.”

“Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.”

“‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”

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