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“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

“There is no Royal Road to Geometry.”
― Euclid

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”
― Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Wherever there is number, there is beauty. ”
― Proclus

“There is geometry in the humming of the string.”
― Pythagoras

“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
― Karl Weierstrass

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
― H.L. Mencken

“It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.”
― John Wesley Young

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
― Albert Einstein

“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.”
― Henri Poincare

“Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.”
― George Polya

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”
― John Dewey

“The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.”
― Jean Dieudonne

“Geometry is the foundation of all painting.”
― Albrecht Durer

“Mathematics should be fun.”
― Peter J. Hilton

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”
― Galileo

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”
― Nathanael West

“The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.”
― Georg Cantor

“From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.”
― Alfred Whitehead

“Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.”
― Walt Disney

“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.”
― Augustus De Morgan

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
― Albert Einstein

“Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.”
― Euripides

“Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.”
― John Arbuthnot

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
― Aristotle