“Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact” with extraterrestrials. I am invited to “ask them anything.” And so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our fixation with STEM erodes our sensitivity to the nonlinear shifts that occur in all human behavior and dulls our natural ability… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math,… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
“once all real numbers are taken into account, every point on the line corresponds to exactly one real number and every real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We're not doing maths again?' Harriet lamented. Lord Winstead looked at Anne with unconcealed curiosity. 'Mathematics? On Rotten Row?' 'We have been… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
“By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.' 'You can put it like that. I'm utterly useless.' 'Useless is such… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30… — Elizabeth Green Copy Share Image
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What’s Julie’s number?” Curran glanced at me. “Julie’s fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of certain aspects… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I never pay attention in math, but if I did, I still could not calculate how much I love you I pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
“I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thread, a single moment of… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
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