I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will… — Thales Copy Share Image
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One plus one is two. That's how it is with me and you, and since the sky is always blue, know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
< 3 : we use this as a symbol for heart. In math, it is less than three. It means that love… — Islam Elnady Copy Share Image
Sex is like math You subtract the clothes Add the bed Divide the legs And Pray to god You dont multiply — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Numbers with the Letter “A” Name all the numbers from 1 - 100, which have the letter “A” in their spelling.” — Puzzleland Copy Share Image
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.” — Bruce Schechter Copy Share Image
Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of… — Heinz-Otto Peitgen Copy Share Image
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — Plato Copy Share Image
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image