“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
In every aspect of our lives we talk about numbers. We talk about cars in this way, houses, jobs. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King… — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point,… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math'… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“...Mathematics and music are at the opposite poles of the human spirit. These two antipodes confine and determine all creative and spiritual… — Heinrich Neuhaus Copy Share Image
There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years. — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.” — David A. Monty Copy Share Image
“You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“However, mathematics-inspired books such as Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians (with its valuable, realworld lessons on subtraction) are fair game.” — John Pearson Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either… — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Awesome." "Awesome squared." "Awesome cubed." "Awesome to the power of infinity." "The square root of awesome is-" "-Asha." We finish at the… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
