It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
George Boole

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Andrew Wiles

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
Don Van Vliet

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
Howard Nemerov

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Albert J. Nock

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

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
Marston Morse

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Richard Courant

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert

Mathematics is as old as Man.
Stefan Banach

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincare

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan Banach

Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus