He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree… — Hiram Maxim Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Human beings, from a mathematical perspective, are fairly limited. Two and three dimensions, maybe five, and we're OK. — Usama Fayyad Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville 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
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There… — Ned Colletti Copy Share Image
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
