It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember doing 5th grade math when I was like seven years old. My parents just constantly pushed me, in a good… — Simu Liu 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
All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today. — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.” — Jarod Kintz 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 COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Algebra is my favorite subject...because you can replace my X without asking me Y. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.” — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive.… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Being good at mathematics is not necessarily the same as being fast at it. Taking the time to understand things properly is… — Lara Alcock Copy Share Image
