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Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

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.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.