The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya Copy Share Image
You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven... — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time… — Hugo Rossi Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread… — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
