Mathematics Quotes

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

John von Neumann

"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."

Srinivasa Ramanujan

"There is no royal road to geometry."

Euclid

"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Mathematics is the music of reason."

James Joseph Sylvester

"Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers."

Shakuntala Devi

"Number rules the universe."

Pythagoras

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

Paul Dirac

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

G. H. Hardy

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

Alfréd Rényi

“Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number.”

"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."

Pythagoras

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."

Galileo Galilei

"God made the integers, all else is the work of man."

Leopold Kronecker

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

John von Neumann

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.”

Bertrand Russell

“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

G. H. Hardy

“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”

Maryam Mirzakhani

“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.”

Paul Dirac

“An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God.”

Srinivasa Ramanujan

“A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind.”

“Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things.”

“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”

“The curious transformations many formulae can undergo, the unsuspected and to a beginner apparently impossible identity of forms exceedingly dissimilar at first sight, is I think one of the chief difficulties in the early part of mathematical studies.”

“A uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.”