I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important… — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew… — Milton Shulman Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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