Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.” — Amy Riekhof Copy Share Image
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Before I really hated MATH. but now, I really love it, because I have you to tell this numbers. 143. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“There are some days where I feel like the sun, moon, and stars. And there are days like today when I feel… — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image