Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image