It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
“He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here.” — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either. — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
