Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I just learned this sub-teaching. . . Teacher (math problem): If you had five apples on your desk and the boy next… — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“Okay, so I may use basic math for doing my checking account, the percent-off sales on my favorite shoes, and other mundane… — Amanda Jason Copy Share Image
2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“When one made love to zero spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath...” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics. — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics,… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin. — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
