I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Mathematics does furnish the power for deliberate thought and accurate statement, and to speak the truth is one of the most social… — S.T. Dutton Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.” — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature.… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Why is it that everyone complains about math I mean what about history and gym I mean those classes suck — Drew Fonner Copy Share Image
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Thor again tutored me in the seventh grade, when I was learning Algebra. Algebra was quite an experience for me. Thor spent… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is the music of reason . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
