Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle 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
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either. — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear math worksheet, Please don't have a back, please don't have...Awe shit, theres a back. Sincerely, fuck you I have better things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that.… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck 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
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics. — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image