Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

Charles Darwin

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics"

Siméon Poisson

Mathematics is the gate and key to the sciences.

Roger Bacon

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Paul Erdos

May Your Life Be Like Arithmetic:

Joys Added -
Sorrows Subtracted -
Friends Multiplied -
Love Un-Divided
Unknown

Mathematicians don't crack jokes, they crack codes.
Tony Follari Comedian

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
Cokie Roberts

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated but to make complicated things simple.

S. Gudder

"What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."

Alice in wonderland

Mathematics is the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

D'Alembert

Mathematics serves as a handmaiden for the explanation of the quantitative situations in other subjects, such as economics, physics, navigation, finance, biology and even the arts.

H. F. Fehr

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

W. B. Smith

The discoveries of Newton have done more for England and for the race, than has been done by whole dynasties of British monarchs.

Thomas Hill

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original development of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

"If you hang around with nice people, you get nice friends. Hang around with smart people and you get smart friends, hang around with yo-yos and you get yo-yos for friends. It's simple mathematics"

Sylverster Stalone in Rocky