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Over the past few months I’ve been sharing
many ideas to help your students develop an
appreciation for mathematics. I’ve shared 21
of the best maths strategies; math tips to
help improve student motivation; a fun way
to review math facts; mental maths games;
and other free printable math games.
I always find quotes a good way to motivate
and inspire, so I’ve compiled 25 inspirational
math quotes. You can use these for
inspiration for yourself, or even share them
with your students and have a discussion
about the meaning of the quote and the
person who is quoted.
25 inspirational math quotes
1. “Do not worry about your difficulties in
mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
greater.” – Albert Einstein
2. “The study of mathematics, like the Nile,
begins in minuteness but ends in
magnificence.” – Charles Caleb Colton
3. “Without mathematics, there’s nothing
you can do. Everything around you is
mathematics. Everything around you is
numbers.” – Shakuntala Devi
4. “In mathematics the art of proposing a
question must be held of higher value than
solving it.” – Georg Ferdinand Ludwig
Philipp Cantor
5. “The only way to learn mathematics is to
do mathematics.” – Paul Halmos
6. “Obvious is the most dangerous word in
mathematics.” – Eric Temple Bell
7. “Mathematics is the music of reason.” –
James Joseph Sylvester
8. “You don’t have to be a mathematician to
have a feel for numbers.” – John Forbes
Nash, Jr.
9. “Life is a math equation. In order to gain
the most, you have to know how to convert
negatives into positives.” – Anonymous
10. “Arithmetic is being able to count up to
twenty without taking off your shoes.” –
Mickey Mouse
11. “It is clear that the chief end of
mathematical study must be to make the
students think.” – John Wesley Young
12. “One of the endlessly alluring aspects of
mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes
have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.” – Philip J Davis
13. “Go down deep enough into anything
and you will find mathematics.” – Dean
Schlicter
14. “Just because we can’t find a solution it
doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.” –
Andrew Wiles
15. “Mathematics is the gate and key to
science.” – Roger Bacon
16. “Mathematics is not about numbers,
equations, computations, or algorithms: it is
about understanding.” – William Paul
Thurston
17. “There should be no such thing as
boring mathematics.” – Edsger Dijkstra
18. “Nature is written in mathematical
language.” – Galileo Galilei
19. “Mathematics is a language.” – Josiah
Willard Gibbs
20. “Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of
logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein
21. “Sometimes the questions are
complicated and the answers are simple.” –
Dr. Seuss
22. “It’s fine to work on any problem, so
long as it generates interesting mathematics
along the way – even if you don’t solve it at
the end of the day.” – Andrew Wiles
23. “If you stop at general math, then you
will only make general money.” – Snoop
Dogg
24. “Mathematics is the most beautiful and
most powerful creation of the human
spirit.” – Stefan Banach
25. “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton
asked why.” – Bernard Baruch