“But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a novel was not as devastating a blow… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Science is like a big sudoku puzzle, when you find a new number it helps you figure out a new one until… — Eve Halimi Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.” — Floyd Alburn Firestone Copy Share Image
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with… — James L. Dolan Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“what is JUST in a world you’ve ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
“This was one of the problems with math department graduates. When it came to areas they weren't interested in, their memory was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A monoid homomorphism f between monoids M and N obeys the following general law for all values x and y: M.op(f(x), f(y))… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God” — Edwin Abejero Copy Share Image
I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?” — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra. — Diplo Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that… — Latto Copy Share Image
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
If you have a problem with me, text me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image