45 Math Quotes to Share With Your Students

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Many students feel nervous when they enter your math classroom. They see numbers and equations as difficult puzzles they cannot solve. Math quotes can help you change their minds about mathematics. These powerful words show students how interesting and useful math can be.

Your students use math every day without knowing it. They calculate time, money, distances, and measurements in their daily activities. When you share math quotes with them, you help students understand how mathematics connects to their real lives and future careers.

In this article, we have gathered some of the best math quotes from various sources, Wednesday (7/1/2025). You can share it to your students to help them see math less frightening and make it more exciting.

1. "Mathematics is the music of reason." - James Joseph Sylvester

2. "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." - Henri Poincare

3. “What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.” – Shakuntala Devi

4. “Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.” – Edward Kasner

5. “Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” – Stefan Banach

6. “Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.” – Joseph Fourier

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

8. “Number rules the universe.” – Pythagoras

9. “Math is the language of the universe. So, the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

10. “It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” - Sofia Kovalevskaya

11. “Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.” – Dean Schlicter

12. “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.” - Stendhal

13. “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.” - Bertrand Russell

14. “God does arithmetic.” – Karl Friedrich Gauss

15. “One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.” – Philip J. Davis

16. "To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions." - Sebastian Thrun

17. “I’ve always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea.” - N.R. Narayana Murthy

18. "Nature is written in mathematical language." - Galileo Galilei

19. "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." - Bernard Baruch

20. "The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality." - David Hilbert

1. "Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers." - Shakuntala Devi

2. "We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics." - Katherine Johnson

3. "What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature." - Shakuntala Devi

4. "Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country." - David Hilbert

5. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” - John von Neumann

6. “Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” – William Paul Thurston

7. "All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon." - Roger Bacon

8. “No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.” - Leonardo Da Vinci

9. “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.”– Georg Cantor

10. “Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.” – Marcus du Sautoy

11. “Mathematics is the gate and key to science.” – Roger Bacon

12. “But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.” – Rene Decartes

13. “In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” – Georg Cantor

14. “Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.” – Leonhard Euler

15. “The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.” – Charles Caleb Colton

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

17. “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” – Paul R. Halmos

18. “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” – Edsger W. Dijkstra

19. “I’ve always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.” – Alvin E. Roth

20. “You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.” – John Forbes Nash

21. "Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject." - Shakuntala Devi

22. "Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives." - Unknown

23. “If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of 10 it will.” – Paul Harvey

24. "Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems — they love a challenge." - Andrew Wiles

25. “The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened” – Richard Dawkins