Mathematics Quotes

We are not to be excused from the necessity of making decisions because we have to make them under a cloud of ignorance.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be an animal in a zoo. I am not a hero. I am not a genius. I am just a mathematician.

I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.

We have to be able to do something. We have to be able to do something to get them to understand that we are not second-class citizens.

We always worked as a team. It's never been a one-person job.

What is provable is not necessarily true.

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

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

If anyone has been able to solve all the problems I have proposed, let him come to me, and I will give him a prize.

When I considered what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number.

To find three numbers such that the sum of any two of them is a square.

Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.

There is no royal road to geometry.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

The problem with mathematics is that it's not a spectator sport. You can't just watch someone else do it and expect to understand it.

It is an excellent method for the discovery of truth to proceed from the known to the unknown.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

I have been led to this by the desire to demonstrate to the people of Pisa, and to the whole world, the utility of the Indian method of calculation.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

I think, therefore I am.