“Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything,” I say in a gentle voice. “Prime numbers have to do… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Part of Ramanujan's genius was to find a way to get values out of the zeta function for negative values. As we… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
“Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Come, let us hasten to a higher plane Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
“It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team.… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
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![“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.' 'The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of…” quote by George Boole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac8/george-boole-33776_chance_a-distinguished-writer-sim-on-denis-pois_3052857.jpg)
![“[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations...” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e0/paul-lockhart-18353_can-do_math-is-not-at-all-like-science-there-s_140084.jpg)
