Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
I get annoyed when I solve a hard math problem to find out later that answer is 0. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
“...I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...” — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“We’ll start with an easy one, shall we? What is the secant of three pi?” The troll asked. “Pie?” Toru felt suddenly… — Noor Al-Shanti Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
![“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.” quote by G.H. Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/g-h-hardy-2-30074_applications_even-a-pure-mathematician-may-find-his-a_1015722.jpg)
