In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play… — Emily Alyn Lind Copy Share Image
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to… — George Polya 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
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
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Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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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
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All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya Copy Share Image
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