Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length… — Gaspard Monge Copy Share Image
I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things… — P. V. Sindhu Copy Share Image
“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“what is JUST in a world you’ve ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
“The choice of ten basic number symbols—that is, the Hindus’ choice of the base 10 for counting and doing arithmetic—is presumably a… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
“I just wanted you to know these are my favorite numbers and my favorite twin primes: 137 and 139. And since they… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for… — Renato Dulbecco Copy Share Image
I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I dont think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
-Hey Mrs Morgan -WHY ARE YOU TEXTING ME AT 2 IN THE MORNING? you can only text me for Math homework! -Oh… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
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