When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image