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
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
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 analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been… — Alfred Adler 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
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
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! — William Blake Copy Share Image
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
