Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. — Blair Hull Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler 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
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is… — Nikola Tesla 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
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
