Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is. — Josephine Winslow Johnson 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
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
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions. — Peter Tait Copy Share Image
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and… — Anonymous 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
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
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer. — George Polya Copy Share Image
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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