With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.” — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit. — James Van Der Beek Copy Share Image
I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers. — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the… — William Fogg Osgood Copy Share Image
I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had… — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image
