The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved. — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“She’d been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles;… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
