If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell 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
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. — Blaise Pascal 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
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac 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
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell 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
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
