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25 Inspiring Quotes About Mathematics and its Beauty

  1. "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." - Albert Einstein
  2. "Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe." - Galileo Galilei
  3. "Do not worry too much about your difficulty in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater." - Albert Einstein
  4. "The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple." - S. Gudder
  5. "Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding." - William Paul Thurston
  6. "In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems." - Georg Cantor
  7. "Pure mathematics is like poetry – a creative activity of the human mind." - Sir Arthur Eddington
  8. "Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences." - Galileo Galilei
  9. "The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics." - Paul Halmos
  10. "Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit." - Stefan Banach
  11. "The study of mathematics is like air and water to our technological society, indispensable." - Edward W. Ngai
  12. "Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency." - William Whewell
  13. "Mathematics is the music of reason." - James Joseph Sylvester
  14. "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." - Bertrand Russell
  15. "The mathematics is not there till we put it there." - Sir Arthur Eddington
  16. "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." - Bertrand Russell
  17. "Mathematics is the science of patterns, and we study it to learn how to reason about the world." - Keith Devlin
  18. "Mathematics is not just about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is also about understanding." - Richard Hamming
  19. "Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers." - Shakuntala Devi
  20. "The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers." - Maryam Mirzakhani
  21. "In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - John von Neumann
  22. "Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost." - W. S. Anglin
  23. "Mathematics is the study of patterns and relationships, which exist everywhere in the natural and human-made world." - Andrea Mori
  24. "Mathematics is the science of the infinite." - Augustin-Louis Cauchy
  25. "Mathematics is not a spectator sport." - George Polya

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