Funny, Short & Inspirational Math Quotes for kids & Students

Famous Math Quotes

  • “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” —Edsger Dijkstra
  • “Measure what can be measured. Make measurable what cannot be measured.” —Galileo
  • “Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.” —David Hilbert
  • “The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates, rather than the problem itself.” —Andrew Wiles
  • “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” —Shakuntala Devi

Math Quotes for Your Classroom

  • “Mathematics is the music of reason.” —James Joseph Sylvester
  • “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” —Edsger Dijkstra
  • “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” —Paul Halmos
  • “Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” —Albert Einstein
  • “If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.” —Snoop Dogg
  • “Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” —Stefan Banach
  • “Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” —William Paul Thurston
  • “Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.” —Frank Capra
  • “In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” —George Cantor
  • “Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.” —Anonymous
  • “It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.” —E.T. Bell
  • “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.” —Marcus du Sautoy
  • “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.” —Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • “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.” —Andrew Wiles

Inspirational Math Quotes for Kids and Students

  • “Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” —Albert Einstein
  • “If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.” —Snoop Dogg
  • “Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” —Stefan Banach
  • “Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” —William Paul Thurston
  • “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” —David Hilbert
  • “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” —Shakuntala Devi
  • “Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.” —Anonymous
  • “Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate, but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution.” —Anonymous
  • “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.” —Andrew Wiles

Short Math Quotes

  • “Mathematics is written for mathematicians.” —Nicolaus Copernicus
  • “Mathematics is the music of reason.” —James Joseph Sylvester
  • “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.” —Stendhal
  • “Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.” —Ronald Graham
  • “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” —Edsger Dijkstra
  • “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.” —Galileo Galilei
  • “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” —Paul Halmos
  • “Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” —Albert Einstein
  • “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” —Paul Halmos
  • “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.” —Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor
  • “The mathematics is not there till we put it there.” —Sir Arthur Eddington
  • “You cannot apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.” —Hermann Weyl
  • “Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.”
  • “If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.” —Snoop Dogg

Math Quotes and Sayings

  • “Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.” —Arnold Sommerfeld
  • “Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
  • “In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” —Johann Von Neumann
  • “The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.” —G. H. Hardy
  • “Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.” —Audrey Maclean
  • “Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.” —Marcus Du Sautoy
  • “The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.” —David Hilbert
  • “The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.” —Marcus Du Sautoy
  • “Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.”
  • “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” —Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor
  • “Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.” —Harold Marston Morse
  • “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
  • “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” —Albert Einstein