“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ” — Alice Kahn Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him. — Nikolay Konstantinov Copy Share Image
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The only time I saw a woman doing anything interesting - I had a math teacher who was a woman. So I… — Judith Love Cohen Copy Share Image
The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life. — Mary Hatwood Futrell Copy Share Image
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
Before I really hated MATH. but now, I really love it, because I have you to tell this numbers. 143. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“There are some days where I feel like the sun, moon, and stars. And there are days like today when I feel… — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
“Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a “Mental Performance Ratio… — Kenneth L. Higbee Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.” — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
![“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.” quote by G.H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/84c/g-h-hardy-2-30074_applications_even-a-pure-mathematician-may-find-his-a_1015722.png)
![“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all numbers are by their nature correct. Well, except for Pi, of course. I can't be doing with Pi. Gives me a headache just thinking about it, going on and on and on and on and on…” quote by Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/721/neil-gaiman-29_mathematics_they-are-simply-numbers-and-cannot-thus_1016616.jpg)
![“It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.” quote by Robert L. Devaney](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b89/robert-l-devaney-78664_aesthetic_it-can-be-argued-that-the-mathematics-be_1438347.jpg)
