Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school,… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that.… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Why do we need schools? Music: we have UTube. Spanish:there's Dora. English: everything's shortened anyway(lol,idk,gtg) Maths: that's why w have calculators. Geography:… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
“Height, weight and body mass index.’ Gene was skimming ahead. ‘Can’t you do the calculation yourself?’ ‘That’s the purpose of the question,’… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
“All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they… — Sylvain Cappell Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why does it have to hurt? Why does it have to be hard?” Tish asked me. “You know how math is your… — Glennon Melton Copy Share Image
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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