Plato Quotes

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

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

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

I think math is exciting, you know.

One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.