To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is…

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of…

— Robert Sternberg

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

— Lewis Carroll

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it…

— Anonymous

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap