Mathematics Quotes

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
― George Gordon Byron

"So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality".
 ― Albert Einstein

"I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and stuty them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists".
  ― Charles Hermite

"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn". 
― Sir Isaac Newton

"Mathematics is like draughts [checkers] in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state".
 ― Plato

"With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics".  
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value