(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders.… — Hamilton Morris Copy Share Image
The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
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Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
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