Good Math Quotes:

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

- Rene Descartes

source: "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 1), 1637.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teaching, Math Education, Mathematical Logic

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

- John Edensor Littlewood

source: John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

topic: Paper, Dozen, Mathematics, Math And Science, Good Math

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

- Raoul Bott

topic: Math, Two, Way, Funny Mathematics, Good Math

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

- Jacques Hadamard

topic: Real, Two, Statistics, Complex Numbers, Good Math

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Queens, Mathematics, Math And Science, Good Math

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

- Paul Halmos

source: P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Math, Way, Mathematics, Math Class, Math Education

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

- Nikolai Lobachevsky

source: "The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane". Book by George Edward Martin, 1975.

topic: Real, World, Branches, Mathematics And Science, Applied Mathematics

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

- Lord Kelvin

topic: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Math And Love, Mathematics And Science, Math Love

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

- G. H. Hardy

source: G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

topic: Education, Unique, Ideas, Math And Music, Math Education

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Math, Science, Ideas, Math Education, Math Teacher

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

- Simeon Denis Poisson

topic: Teaching, Science, Life Is Good, Math And Science, Discovering Things

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Christian, Science, Men, Mathematics And Science, Mathematics By Mathematicians

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

- John von Neumann

source: John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.

topic: Believe, Math, Simple, Math Education, Mathematics By Mathematicians

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

- George Polya

topic: Good Luck, Discovery, Ideas, Good Math, Bright Ideas

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

- George Polya

topic: Teaching, Enemy, May, Mathematical Logic, Good Math

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

- Leopold Kronecker

topic: Math, Men, Lord, Integers, Good Math

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

- Paul Halmos

topic: Jobs, Understanding, Want, Learning Math, Good Math

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.99, Routledge

topic: Thinking, Differences, Finding Yourself, Math And Love, Deep Life

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

- Rene Descartes

topic: Wisdom, Book, Reading, Math Is Like, Reading Books

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

- Henri Poincare

topic: House, Stones, Facts, Math And Science, Science And Technology

The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

- John Edensor Littlewood

source: John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Numbers, Math Problems, Mathematical Problems

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

- W. S. Gilbert

source: 'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Names, Integral Calculus, Gansey

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

- Oliver Heaviside

topic: Dinner, Should, Process, Good Digestion, Good Math

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

- George Polya

topic: Philosophy, Not Good Enough, Physics, Math Education, Good Math

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Noses, Mathematics, Wells, Math And Science, Funny Mathematics

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

- Roger Bacon

topic: Math, Keys, Gates, Good Math

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

- Bo Burnham

topic: Math, People, Musical, Good Math, Musical Ability

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

- Michael Patrick King

source: "Fictional character: Carrie". "Sex and the City" (TV series), 1998-2004.

topic: Love, Math, Problem, Good Math

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

- Marcus du Sautoy

topic: Math, Opportunity, Skills, Math Skills, Good Math