Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato Copy Share Image
Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. — William Fogg Osgood Copy Share Image
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. — Maxwell Rosenlicht Copy Share Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! — William Blake Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
