Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“any number of peas under the mattress and I would not know it—” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in male and female brains and whether female brains or male brains are better at maths. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Math: The only place where a person can buy 80 watermelons without anyone thinking they're a weirdo. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“People assume you have to have some special talent to do mathematics,” Sylvia has said. “They think you’re either born with it,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
