Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai 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
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more… — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
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