Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Another Keisha, nice to meet ya, get the math I'm gone what am I s'posed to do when the club lights come… — Dirty Money Copy Share Image
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it “maths” and he… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image