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