The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that. — Franz Ernst Neumann Copy Share Image
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image