“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.” — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
You must be a math problem because you're annoying and difficult. I don't wanna solve your problems for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it. — Simeon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Why do we need schools? Music: we have UTube. Spanish:there's Dora. English: everything's shortened anyway(lol,idk,gtg) Maths: that's why w have calculators. Geography:… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
