Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives… — Henri Darmon Copy Share Image
Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer 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
“students who were told to think about the happiest day of their lives right before taking a standardized math test outperformed their… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
“Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Thousands of years ago the ancients had an advanced mathematical understanding of universe that is revealed in many sources. There is a… — Alison Charlotte Primrose Copy Share Image
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers. — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Dear Math, I liked you so much more before you and the alphabet started hooking up. Sincerely, everyone. — Khat Leen Copy Share Image
Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I'm the best in the world. — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
“In this moment I’m reminded of Thor tutoring me math in the second grade. Thor was a math major in college, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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