Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired. — Gogen Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
When you're young, you want to put up the numbers, you want to be 'the man.' — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind. — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics,… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics. — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
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