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What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
— David Eugene Smith
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,
— Dion Fortune
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
— John D. Barrow
The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.
— Mark Lawrence
Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.
— Jordan Ellenberg
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
— Ronald Coase
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!
— Constance Reid
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.
— David Hilbert
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
— Richard P. Feynman
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
— Gottfried Leibniz
I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
— Armand Borel
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
— Bertrand Russell
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.
— Stanislaw Ulam
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
— Marcus Du Sautoy
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.
— Margaret Geller
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
— Timothy Gowers
Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
— L. Frank Baum
In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.
— Richard Hamming
I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?
— Dejan Stojanovic
What comes, is called.
— Ki Longfellow
What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
— Tom Robbins
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
— Bertrand Russell
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.
— Salomon Bochner
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
— Bertrand Russell
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
— Aaron Sorkin
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
— Serge Lang
You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.
— Malcolm Gladwell