I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be there when my number is called and even when my number is not called. — DeSean Jackson Copy Share Image
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya Copy Share Image
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be… — Peter Sarnak Copy Share Image
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life. — John Urschel Copy Share Image
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain. — Eva Amurri Copy Share Image
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it. — Jerry McNerney Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot. — John Stockton Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
