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
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and… — Serge Haroche Copy Share Image
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take… — William Petersen 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
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my… — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy… — Bo Burnham 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
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Math may not teach me how to add love or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected. — Edward Griffith Begle Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties. — Gza Copy Share Image
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends. — David Spade Copy Share Image
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field. — Robert Huber Copy Share Image
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers… — Justin Guarini Copy Share Image
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