“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around. — Jim Blinn Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths. — Robert Toth Copy Share Image
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus? — Eric Yuan Copy Share Image
“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong… — John Locke Copy Share Image
AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
“We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.” — Lawrence Young Copy Share Image
In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
9.What is love? In math: an equation; in history: a war; in chemistry: a reaction; in art: a heart; in me: YOU. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
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