Yes, numbers can deceive. But so can words—not to mention pictures, hand gestures, hip-hop musicals, and fundraising emails. Our moral system blames the liar, not the medium chosen for the lie.

— Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings

No matter what you call it – game theory, postmodernism or memetics – the dynamics of history are not directed towards enhancing human well-being.

— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

Mathematicians do not like things which work only in base-10; it is only because we have ten fingers that we find that system interesting at all. Mathematics is the search for universal, not base-specific, truth.

— Matt Parker, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics

First, we have to understand the problem; we have to see clearly what is required. Second, we have to see how the various items are connected, how the unknown is linked to the data, in order to obtain the idea of the solution, to make a plan. Third, we carry out our plan. Fourth, we look back at the completed solution, we review and discuss it.

— G. Polya and John H. Conway, Sapiens