Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you. — George Polya Copy Share Image
She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions… — Gregory Chaitin 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
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. — James Joseph Sylvester 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
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer. — George Polya Copy Share Image
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen 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
