Mathematical Quotes

"Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and Number Theory
is the queen of Mathematics."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood
on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton
"Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and
teaching mathematics." -- Simeon Poisson
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
-- Descartes
"Cogito, Ergo Sum. I think, therefore I am." -- Descartes
"It is easier to square a circle than to get round a
mathematician." -- de Morgan
"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in
soul. -- Sophia Kovalevskaya
"All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small
number of immutable laws." - La Place

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting
without being aware that it is counting." -- Leibniz
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the
spirit of man." -- David Hilbert
"Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I
can assure you that mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein
"Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her."
-- D'Alembert
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
"God ever geometrizes." -- Plato
"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never
be a complete mathematician." -- Karl Weierstrass

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright
"Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = e^x, like a
phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?"
-- Francois le Lionnais
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose
denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the
denominator, the smaller the fraction." -- Tolstoy
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world
for ugly mathematics."
-- Godfrey Harold Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns.
If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they
are made with ideas." -- G. H. Hardy

"Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come
to an end." -- Paul Erdos
"It will be another million years, at least, before we understand
the primes." -- Paul Erdos
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
-- Paul Erdos
"There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of
all formulas -- developed by Euler from a discovery of de
Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0... It appeals equally to the mystic, the
scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician."
-- Edward Kasner and James Newman
"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work
of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe
in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."
-- Leonhard Euler
“Read Euler: he is our master in everything.”
-- Pierre-Simon de Laplace
"An Equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of God."
-Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar