I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Your calendar is made up of twelve munse, your clock is divided by twelve, but your math and currency is based on… — Donald Swan Copy Share Image
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the 'real' mathematics of Fermat and other great mathematicians, the mathematics which has permanent aesthetic value, as for example… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Let me leave you my number. Anything comes up, or if anyone bothers you-" "You're bothering me.” — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Math is fun, it teaches you life and death information, like when you're cold, you should go to a corner since it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“If you are number 2 or 3 and you are ok with that, then you are ready to be number one and… — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of… — Plato Copy Share Image
What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
