The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
“For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the… — Boethius Copy Share Image
I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
“Oresme's genius was to make a new series which was definitely smaller than the harmonic series. He took the list of all… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot… — Reuben Hersh Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
I went to study electronic engineering and computer science because I was good at math and my father told me it is… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
School children and students who love God should never say: "For my part I like mathematics"; "I like French"; "I like Greek."… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making — even more than storytelling, painting, or music… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Put the number seven in front of a mirror and what do you have? If you answered 77, then perhaps you talk… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
“Do numbers hold spiritual significance? Perhaps they do. For me, the most powerful numbers are two and six because when you multiply… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
![“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.” quote by Stephen Smale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42a/stephen-smale-279769_announcements_an-announcement-of-christopher-zeeman-s_2260453.jpg)
![“[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard was very illegible, marred with frequent erasures, and not infrequent mistakes (he worked too fast for accuracy). He was always ready to digress from the…” quote by William Elwood Byerly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf3/william-elwood-byerly-107525_benjamin-peirce_benjamin-peirce-s-lectures-were-not-easy_1207206.jpg)
![“White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” quote by Al Sharpton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a27/al-sharpton-2091_architecture_white-folks-was-in-the-caves-while-we-bl_1328323.jpg)
![“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to…” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5b/paul-lockhart-18353_geometry_be-honest-did-you-actually-read-the-abov_1114656.jpg)
