Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws. — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester. — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation.… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
