What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the… — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other,… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of… — John Golden Copy Share Image
It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
“You know what happens when you give a kid a calculator instead of teaching him math?" "I think you need my help."… — Carolyn Crane Copy Share Image
“Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother… — R. A. Spratt Copy Share Image
“The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies… — Brahmagupta Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I got a hotline, you can call for the herb, Mathematics with a addicts, you can call me a nerd, I don't… — Ya Boy Copy Share Image
“This is what it means to do mathematics. To make a discovery (by whatever means, including playing around with physical models like… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“If you were given to thinking of numbers as having human-like qualities, you might picture e^i*pi as a guru into transcendental meditation… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
“Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
![“The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest…” quote by James Joseph Sylvester](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e72/james-joseph-sylvester-23602_absolutes_the-world-of-ideas-which-it-mathematics_338576.png)
![“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.” quote by Paul Erdos](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/439/paul-erdos-18554_beautiful_when-asked-why-are-numbers-beautiful-it_557582.jpg)
