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
“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and… — Norman Maclean 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
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
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was a Russian cult of eunuchs known as the Skoptsy who were renowned for their proficiency as mathematicians, bankers, and moneylenders.… — Hamilton Morris Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or… — Edward Frenkel 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
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 Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner 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
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an… — Gregory Chaitin 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
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
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
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