[A mathematician is a]
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. Evan Esar
Learning Math
Mighty is geometry; joined
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. Euripides
Obvious is the most
Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics is a game
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. David Hilbert
Learning without thought is
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
The study of mathematics,
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton
Arithmetic is where numbers
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Carl Sandburg
Arithmetic is numbers you
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Carl Sandburg
Education is learning more
Education is learning more than it is being taught. It’s the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that. Bob Guccione, Jr.
Mathematics may be defined
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