“We write in darkness. We love in alleys. We breathe into beige paper bags. Anything to mollify the confusion. Anything to simplify… — Bill Yarrow Copy Share Image
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.” — Slicktor Victor Robinson Copy Share Image
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
We do not know whether there are extra dimensions or multiverse. Let's go forward with the possible ideas that come out of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students famous nightmare is that when teacher start victimizing who will go to the blackboard to resolve a mathematics exercise . — MLY AB Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
