Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history,… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening. — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will… — Thales Copy Share Image
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out. — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven… — Frederick Reines Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. — Max Dehn Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image