In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem. — Confucius Copy Share Image
