A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood 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
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given… — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont Copy Share Image
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen 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
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