“Some could say it is the external world which has molded our thinking-that is, the operation of the human brain-into what is… — Stanislaw M. Ulam Copy Share Image
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence.… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I thought math, especially when I was younger, is something you either love or hate. I had been blessed to be able… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“I try to push numbers through the equation Everything's about numbers About making them fit Numbers that I can't slide into this… — Catherine Alene Copy Share Image
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it. — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect. — Judah Friedlander 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
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in… — John Ashworth Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
