I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math… — Justin Lee Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were… — Alex Bellos Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only… — Martin Haberman Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
