I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
“I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing." Philosophy That can't be done." Religion Two negatives equals a positive." Math” — Dustin Sweet Copy Share Image
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct… — Faf de Klerk Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the… — Susan Elia MacNeal Copy Share Image
I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory". — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of… — Gza Copy Share Image
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. { Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor 's… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. — Plato Copy Share Image
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
“In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.” — V.M.Robinson Copy Share Image
“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image