Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Not only can I teach you math, I can teach you math in bed, Jordan. You know, I'll add the bed, you… — miranda kenneally Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
“Let me leave you my number. Anything comes up, or if anyone bothers you-" "You're bothering me.” — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of… — John Golden Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image