Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Simple people always use common sense. Crazy people always use specialized knowledge.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ... — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me. — Adam Thielen Copy Share Image
“This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.” — Nasa Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, you were allowed to ask ever so many questions. And even to come up with new ones as soon as… — Michèle Audin 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
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology. — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
I completed my degree in Mathematics at Rajapalayam Rajus College and then went to Chennai in 1993. I also completed my law degree. — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
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