In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I… — Khleo Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar Copy Share Image
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I… — Jimmy Rollins Copy Share Image
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...” — Brajesh Kumar Copy Share Image
Teacher says to student, In Algebra A=B & B=C. It means A=C. Now give relevant example. Student: Sir, I love you &… — Babloo Copy Share Image
'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis. — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople Copy Share Image
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in… — Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Government and Politics, my fellows, are lies. Purely and utterly. It is through numbers, however, that we as Man can even come… — Dr Hermann Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?” — Srinivas Shenoy Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato Copy Share Image
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“We did Shakespeare last year at my old school… But I can't fake it in Math. I can't even... what's the opposite… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image