The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language, built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
“Scientists, famously, use a lot of mathematics, at least in many disciplines (including both cognitive science and economics). Much of this is… — Don Ross Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today’s prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“That was why he had always liked mathematics. There were right or wrong answers there. Not like the other hippie subjects they… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
“that would involve dividing by zero, which mathematics doesn’t allow. (No use to ask “What happens if I do?” Yo u can’t.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“But we do not congratulate a schoolmaster on teaching that two and two make four, though we may, perhaps, congratulate him on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The Greeks couldn't do this neat little mathematical trick. They didn't have the concept of a limit because they didn't believe in… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
“Let’s take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
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