How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
“4.19. Dedekind's approach is a singular combination of Descartes' Cogito and the idea of the idea in Spinoza. The starting point is… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Nine equals eight … just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of… — John Golden Copy Share Image
“Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the particular types of curved… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Acting is mathematics for me. I do very little homework and rather rely on my imagination for playing a role. — Antara Mali Copy Share Image
If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics, that would be 4 million jobs. — William E. Conway, Jr Copy Share Image
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Tengo has an innate knack for precision in all realms, including correct punctuation and discovering the simplest possible formula necessary to solve… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They put a man on the moon. Can’t they find some way to end the scourge of algebra?” — Huston Piner Copy Share Image
I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design - and how they come together. We've got… — Kirsty Duncan Copy Share Image
I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book! — James Tanton Copy Share Image
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image