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Mickey Mouse: "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes."
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Charles Darwin: "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there."
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Philippe Schnoebelen: "Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about."
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Paul Harvey: "If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
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"Decimals have a point."
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"Natural numbers are better for your health."
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"To a mathematician, real life is a special case."
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"This is a one line proof, if we start sufficiently far to the left."
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"Mathematics is like love, a simple idea, but it can get complicated."
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"I heard that parallel lines actually do meet, but they are very discrete."
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"A tragedy of mathematics is a beautiful conjecture ruined by an ugly fact."
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"These days, even the most pure and abstract mathematics is in danger to be applied."
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"The highest moments in the life of a mathematician are the first few moments after one has proved the result, but before one finds the mistake."
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If you liked those then check out some of Albert Einstein's math quotes as well as famous math quotes from other mathematicians and philosophers.
- If humor is more your thing then we've got some math jokes for kids and funny math riddles too.