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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
