My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the music of reason . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“If all the tough situations in our life are problems, mathematics thought us to solve any problem. Just need a formula which… — Riyaz Mohammad Copy Share Image
“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Another Keisha, nice to meet ya, get the math I'm gone what am I s'posed to do when the club lights come… — Dirty Money 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
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
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
I don't want to be number one. Being number one means there is a two and three. I want to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanna smile, but right now smiling feels like doing math. I don't want to do it, I don't see the point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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