The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
“As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
“Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances? Professor Jones:… — David Morgan-Mar Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
Time is something in life not to divide if so you loose it four times. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya Copy Share Image
We are justified in calling numbers a free creation of the human mind. — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science. — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night." — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image