Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I've always been good at math. It's straightforward, black-and-white, right and wrong. Equations. Da thought of people as books to be read,… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.” — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“There are some days where I feel like the sun, moon, and stars. And there are days like today when I feel… — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
“Another book gives the illusion of scientific precision by working out this reasoning in a mathematical formula using a “Mental Performance Ratio… — Kenneth L. Higbee Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Before I really hated MATH. but now, I really love it, because I have you to tell this numbers. 143. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life. — Mary Hatwood Futrell Copy Share Image
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
The only time I saw a woman doing anything interesting - I had a math teacher who was a woman. So I… — Judith Love Cohen Copy Share Image
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image