We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human… — P. Carey Reid Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated. — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I loved some classes - math, history, that's pretty much it. I didn't love physical activities. — Nikola Jokic Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
