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"Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate, but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution." - Anonymous

"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician." - Karl Weierstrass

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

“The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” - Stan Gudder

"Wherever there is number, there is beauty." - Proclus

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

"To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world." - Richard P. Feynman

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

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

"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom." - Georg Cantor

“Nature is written in mathematical language.” - Galileo Galilei

“‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.” - Eric Temple Bell

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

“Mathematics is the music of reason.” - James Joseph Sylvester

“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” - Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

"Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." - Simeon Poisson

“All systems operate optimally. You just have to figure out what they are optimizing over.” - Henry Pollak

"Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world." - Marcus du Sautoy