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Top 25 Martin Gardner Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Gardner Quote: “The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.”

1. “The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.”

2. “In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”

3. “Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don’t cheat. People do.”

4. “As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don’t cheat. People do.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham’s laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.”

5. “Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham’s laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?”

6. “A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.”

7. “Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that “sees” in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.”

8. “The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that “sees” in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.”

9. “The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”

10. “There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.”

11. “Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

12. “As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.”

14. “The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”

15. “If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Let us hope that Lysenko’s success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.”

16. “Let us hope that Lysenko’s success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine – in fact one shudders to imagine – a child of today reading and enjoying it.”

17. “Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine – in fact one shudders to imagine – a child of today reading and enjoying it.”

— Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner Quote: “If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.”

18. “If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.”

19. “In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose.”

20. “The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “My wife and I own a cat we call Eureka, after Dorothy’s cat in the fourth Oz book. In Eureka’s dim mind she must be a kind of polytheist, fed as she is by the two of us, and by neighbors when we take a trip; surrounded on all sides by giant creatures who move about on their hind legs to do things utterly beyond her ken. But we who are her gods have a power of speculation far greater than that of her tiny feline brain.”

21. “My wife and I own a cat we call Eureka, after Dorothy’s cat in the fourth Oz book. In Eureka’s dim mind she must be a kind of polytheist, fed as she is by the two of us, and by neighbors when we take a trip; surrounded on all sides by giant creatures who move about on their hind legs to do things utterly beyond her ken. But we who are her gods have a power of speculation far greater than that of her tiny feline brain.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.”

22. “A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains.”

23. “We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.”

24. “The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.”

— Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner Quote: “Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all...”

25. “Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all...”

— Martin Gardner

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