I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Immortality is often ridiculous or cruel: few of us would have chosen to be Og or Ananias or Gallio. Even in mathematics,… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We lived in a two-bedroom apartment, and I shared a room with Kevin, who was three years older than me. I had… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and… — Donald J. Newman Copy Share Image
There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard… — Ellen Kaplan Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
School is pointless Writing: We know that. Math: 1+1= 2 Beyonce taught us that English: We speak it cause we learned it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find x if (x)=2sin3x,over the domain -2piX=Beth 'Stop goofing around!',I said. 'I'm not! I'm stating the truth.You're my solution to everything',Xavier replied.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at… — Heinrich Burkhardt Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
“...it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music.… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with… — Keith Devlin 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
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting… — Darrin Crescenzi Copy Share Image
“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image