Math Appreciation Quotes

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

I certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

I just love math and most people don't.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.

I thought math, especially when I was younger, is something you either love or hate. I had been blessed to be able to do math and it made me like it.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.