Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income? — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“He stared back like I was an advanced math problem he couldn't interpret.” — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the… — Euclid Copy Share Image
“I always consider myself as being bad in equation, of being a failure at Math. But when I start to count down… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,… — Hilda Phoebe Hudson Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Merlin smiled. "Thank you, sir! It was just Game Theory." "It was just – is this a Maths thing?" "Well, Maths and… — FayJay Copy Share Image
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily… — John A. Van de Walle Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here.” — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Being the best is great, you're number one; but being unique is greater, you're the only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. — Glenn Hoddle Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas. — Jerry McNerney Copy Share Image
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
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