I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing.… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Underlying all this activity—in the customhouses, on the wharves, in every place of business—were numbers. Merchants measured out their wares and negotiated… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had… — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months,… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas,… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“Some could say it is the external world which has molded our thinking-that is, the operation of the human brain-into what is… — Stanislaw M. Ulam Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to… — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of… — Johanna Drucker Copy Share Image
“Leaning back in the couch, she let her mind relax. Think, Heather. Think. She visualized a grid containing the origin of a… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the impression that the educational system promulgates, there are no absolute answers to questions; the correct answer to a question… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
