“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.] — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
“In the ordinal view, number is thought as a link in a chain, it is an element of a total order. In… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Hits and runs are the numbers that really impress me. It means you're contributing a lot to your team by being in… — Trea Turner Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I used to be jealous; I'm not jealous anymore. And a miracle happened to me, because if you're jealous, it's a cancer,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
