Dear Math, I liked you so much more before you and the alphabet started hooking up. Sincerely, everyone. — Khat Leen Copy Share Image
“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Do you like maths, if so add a bed, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and can we multiply? — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Luckily, there's a neat approximation formula for just this sum. The higher the number n, the better the estimate will be. It… — Metin Bektas Copy Share Image
I think age is just a number - if you are young enough, you are old enough - as long as you… — Ashley Young Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything? — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square? — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Mark Labbett, maths genius as he undoubtedly is, has every statistic imaginable. There is a reason for that. All the stats make… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day… — Stephon Marbury Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My sister Susan, who was the first one, was pretty good in mathematics and then chess, and my father chose chess because… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Biggest Maths Mystery: . . Thousands of years passed, . . Millions of theorems derived, . Crores of formulae made, . But… — Chirag Jain Copy Share Image
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I don't need to be NUMBER 1 in something. As long as I am not as TRYING HARD as YOU ARE. shame… — ALYSSA Copy Share Image
Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
![“Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/948/anonymous-1_beautiful_some-mathematics-problems-look-simple-an_299446.jpg)
