Famous Math Quotes
Enjoy reading a wide range of famous math quotes
that are sure to get you thinking.
Find interesting insights, motivational ideas and
inspirational thoughts from the world’s greatest mathematicians, philosophers
and visionaries. What do they have to say about numbers, arithmetic, geometry
and other mathematical topics? Read our list of famous math quotes and find
out!
Tolstoy: "Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
Carl
Friedrich Gauss: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet
know how I am to arrive at them."
Carl
Friedrich Gauss: "Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the
queen of mathematics."
John von
Neumann: "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only
because they do not realize how complicated life is."
Plato:
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of
reasoning."
Archimedes: "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the
earth."
Rene
Descartes: "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
Isaac
Newton: "If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac
Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the
multiplicity and confusion of things."
Benjamin
Franklin: "No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical
invention without geometry."
Johannes
Kepler: "Where there is matter, there is geometry."
Blaise
Pascal: "It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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