School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but… — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
“With the invention of the fractals, what was once unrecognizable became recognized, and what was vague became distinguishable even in plain graphics. … — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image