1. Albert Einstein:"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." (纯数学在其本质上是逻辑思想的诗歌。)
2. Archimedes:"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world." (给我一个支点,我就能撬起整个地球。)
3. Euclid:"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God." (自然法则是上帝的数学思考。)
4. Pythagoras:"All things are numbers." (一切皆可数。)
5. René Descartes:"Cogito, ergo sum."(我思故我在。)
6. Isaac Newton:"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." (如果我比别人看得更远,那是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。)
7. Carl Friedrich Gauss:"Mathematics is the queen of sciences." (数学是科学之王。)
8. Blaise Pascal:"The heart has reasons which reason knows not." (心有其道,而理不知。)
9. John von Neumann:"In mathematics, you don't understand things; you just get used to them." (在数学中,你不是理解事情,而是适应它们。)
10. Srinivasa Ramanujan:"An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God." (对我而言,一个方程没有意义,除非它表达上帝的思想。)
11. Andrew Wiles:"I was never any good at mathematics, but I loved it, and so I studied it with a passion." (我从来不擅长数学,但我热爱它,因此我用热情学习它。)
12. David Hilbert:"We must know, we will know." (我们必须知道,我们将会知道。)
13. Leonhard Euler:"Mathematics is the music of reason." (数学是理性的音乐。)
14. Paul Erdős:"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." (一个数学家就是把咖啡变成定理的机器。)
15. Benoit Mandelbrot:"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."(云不是球体,山不是锥体,海岸线不是圆形,树皮不是光滑的,并且闪电不会直线行进。)