705 Quotes About Mathematics

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

I think the school's test scores that I've seen in the papers recently show that this new math thing really isn't what it was cracked up to be. It should be revisited.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.