Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance. — John Madden Copy Share Image
“Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in… — Allie X Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
