Christopher Robin Milne Quotes

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

I think math is exciting, you know.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.