“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I love it when you have an epiphany and suddenly get how to do a math problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life.… — Josh Lawson Copy Share Image
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Most people would have probably lost count around seven. This was, Harry knew from his extensive reading on logic and arithmetic, the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...” — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position,… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.” — William Dunham Copy Share Image
