Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. — Dirk Jan Struik Copy Share Image
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson 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
On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! — William Blake Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis 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
Time is something in life not to divide if so you loose it four times. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image