When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science.… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling… — Andrew Sturm Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we've just got all-or-nothing. We need to give people another… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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