I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the impression that the educational system promulgates, there are no absolute answers to questions; the correct answer to a question… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that.… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory? — Shmuel Weinberger Copy Share Image
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