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Have you ever used inspirational quotes to teach your children how to be better individuals? You can also use them to instill a love of math in your children.
Math quotes can help your children or students appreciate the importance of math and find joy in solving math problems.
We bring you a list of 80 math quotes for children that will make math fun for them.
80 Math Quotes For Kids
Inspirational Math Quotes
These inspirational quotes by famous personalities show that no math problem is insurmountable, and everyone can learn mathematics by putting their heart into it.
1. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” —Albert Einstein
2. “Without mathematics, there is nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” —Shakuntala Devi
3. “Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe.” — Galileo
4. “Mathematics is the music of reason.” —James Joseph Sylvester
5. “Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” —Stefan Banach
6. “It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics, in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.” —Paul Halmos
7. “Mathematics is on the artistic side a creation of new rhythms, orders, designs, harmonies, and on the knowledge side, is a systematic study of various rhythms, orders.” —William L. Schaaf
8. “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
9. “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.” —Richard Courant
10. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” —Albert Einstein
11. “What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.” —Shakuntala Devi
12. “All mathematicians share a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.” —Martin Gardner
13. “Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” —William Paul Thurston
14. “There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.” —Edsger Dijkstra
15. “The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.” —Paul Halmos
16. “Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.” —Frank Capra
17. “It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” —Sofia Kovalevskaya
18. “To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.” —Sebastian Thrun
19. “In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” —Georg Cantor
20. “I have always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing an idea.” —N.R. Narayana Murthy
21. “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.” —Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)
22. “Wherever there is number, there is beauty.” —Proclus
23. “Mathematics is a language.” —Josiah Willard Gibbs
24. “Nature is written in mathematical language.” —Galileo Galilei
25. “Go down deep into anything and you will find mathematics.” —Dean Schlicter
26. “Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.” —Marcus du Sautoy
27. “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.” —Georg Cantor
28. “Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.” —David Hilbert
29. “’Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.” —Eric Temple Bell
30. “Mathematics is the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs, a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.” —Marston Morse
31. “A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.” —Karl Weierstrass
32. “Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.” —Joseph Fourier
33. “It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.” —John Wesley Young
34. “Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.” —Shakuntala Devi
35. “Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.” —Sofia Kovalevskaya
36. “The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.” —Charles Caleb Colton
37. “You can be creative in anything – in math, science, engineering, philosophy – as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.” —Ken Robinson
38. “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.” —Bertrand Russell
39. “You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.” —John Forbes Nash, Jr.
40. “Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.” —Anonymous
Funny Math Quotes
What is math without a bit of fun? Here are some funny quotes that will lift your mood and give you hope even when you are given a challenging problem to solve.
41. “Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.” —Mickey Mouse
42. “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.” —Albert Einstein
43. “Just because we can’t find a solution it doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.” —Andrew Wiles
44. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” —Dr. Seuss
45. “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.” —Bernard Baruch
46. “If you stop at general math, then you will only make general money.” —Snoop Dogg
47. “It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way – even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day.” —Andrew Wiles
48. “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” —John von Neumann
49. “Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.” —David Hilbert
50. “Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems – they love a challenge.” —Andrew Wiles
51. “If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” —Galileo Galilei
52. “Somehow it’s okay for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet, if I said, “I never learned to read,” they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
53. “I am still waiting for the day I’ll use mathematics integration in real life.” —Derrick Obedgiu
54. “Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I’m tired of solving them for you.” —Anonymous
55. “Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.” —Carl Sandburg
56. “That awkward moment when you finish a math problem and your answer isn’t even one of the choices.” —Ritu Ghatourey
57. “Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.” —Anonymous
58. “If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of 10 it will.” —Paul Harvey
59. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” —Albert Einstein
60. “A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.” —Charles Darwin
61. “Dear Math, I’m sick and tired of finding your X. Just accept the fact that she’s gone.” —Anonymous
62. “Decimals have a point.” —Anonymous
63. “Math is fun. It teaches you life and death information like when you’re cold, you should go to a corner since it’s 90 degrees there.” —Anonymous
64. “Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It’s free. It can be played anywhere – Archimedes did it in a bathtub.” —Richard J. Trudeau
65. “Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.” —George Pólya
66. “Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.” —Steven Wright
67. “Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts.” —Albert Einstein
68. “Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate, but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution.” —Anonymous
69. “In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong.” —Katherine Johnson
70. “The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.” —Andrew Wiles
71. “Math: The only place where people buy 60 watermelons and no one wonders why.” —Anonymous
72. “What do mathematicians eat on Halloween? Pumpkin Pi.” —Anonymous
73. “Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.” —Rene Descartes
74. “Mathematics is a hard thing to love. It has the unfortunate habit, like a rude dog, of turning its most unfavorable side towards you when you first make contact with it.” —David Whiteland
75. “I’ve always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.” —Alvin E. Roth
76. “There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else – but persistent.” —Raoul Bott
77. “Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.” —Philippe Schnoebelen
78. “Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world.” —Marcus du Sautoy
79. “Have you heard the latest statistics joke? Probably.” —Anonymous
80. “You know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren’t divisible by two.” —Anonymous
Whenever your students or children seem down because they cannot understand a math concept, use these inspirational and funny math quotes for kids to pep them up and motivate them.
