So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Biggest Maths Mystery: . . Thousands of years passed, . . Millions of theorems derived, . Crores of formulae made, . But… — Chirag Jain Copy Share Image
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be… — Peter Sarnak Copy Share Image
“There is nothing." Philosophy That can't be done." Religion Two negatives equals a positive." Math” — Dustin Sweet Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers—it’s strictly for amateurs. At” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of… — Johanna Drucker Copy Share Image
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world… — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
“So let that be a lesson, kids who get an F in math. Ellen says you’re doing the right thing. You’re welcome,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other.… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the… — Leonhard Euler 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
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise. — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,… — Hilda Phoebe Hudson Copy Share Image
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
