“If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning?” — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)” — Sheridan Jobbins Copy Share Image
Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn Copy Share Image
We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
I found marketing to be highly descriptive and prescriptive, without much of a foundation in deep research. I brought in economics, organization… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image