The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why… — Ritesh Copy Share Image
“Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but… — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are… — Irving Kaplansky Copy Share Image
“Yeah, but I’m the second most fucked up person I know, and when you put two negatives together, you get a positive.… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human… — P. Carey Reid Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally,… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up.… — RZA Copy Share Image
Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of… — Adi Shamir Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number"… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
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