But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
“Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances? Professor Jones:… — David Morgan-Mar Copy Share Image
Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Life Is Like Mathematics. It's so complicated. But, all you have to do is,,, You just, [+] Add Friends, [-] Subtract Enemies,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the deepest beauty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length… — Gaspard Monge Copy Share Image
I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up,… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively… — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“The thesis of the book,” he writes in response, “when correctly interpreted, is essentially trivial. . . . To ‘prove’ such a mathematical result by… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world.… — Ivan Sutherland Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“When he said someone had 'died', Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had 'left',… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad! (the story girl)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Max Dehn Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Life is like mathematical 1st principle equation once you forget to put lim, then every steps are wrong — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image