You think you have troubles with mathematics. . . I assure you mine are still bigger.
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures. . . let that be our motto.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide - a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.