“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.” — Lynne Barasch Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the… — Pafnuty Chebyshev Copy Share Image
“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Creating problems. Solving problems. Which are you truly good at? Things are the way they are. Things happen the way they happen.… — Thee Ace Man Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Every time I see a math word problem it looks like this: If I have 10 ice cubes and you have 11… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did… — Alex Sharp Copy Share Image
Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.” — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
