The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which… — George Boole Copy Share Image
...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton 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
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about… — John B. Conway Copy Share Image
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
