It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen. — David Gross Copy Share Image
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
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