If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John Louis von Neumann
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
S. Gudder
Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
Dean Schlicter
Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It’s free. It can be played anywhere.
Richard J. Trudeau
Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
Isaac Barrow
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
Carl Sandburg, “Arithmetic”
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Carl Sandburg, “Arithmetic”
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
Richard Preston