Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus… — Leo Beenhakker Copy Share Image
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
“Odd,” agreed Reg. “I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Math is the only place where I hear someone doing ridiculous things. For Example John has 30 chocolate bar he eats 23,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is… — Francois Le Lionnais Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Haters got PhD's, y'all just some major haters and some math minors. — Cyhi Da Prynce Copy Share Image
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever, fair-haired boy.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
If our relationship was an equation it would look like this: 1+1= -2 — Teresa Noreen Copy Share Image
“Not my grade in math, not my blood type, but my favourite quote "Be Positive".” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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