Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. — Hypatia Copy Share Image
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil. — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The simple act of moving your body will do more for your brain than any riddle, math equation, mystery book, or even… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a… — Goro Shimura Copy Share Image
“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language, built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Scientists, famously, use a lot of mathematics, at least in many disciplines (including both cognitive science and economics). Much of this is… — Don Ross Copy Share Image
“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
