The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable. — Alexander Dewdney Copy Share Image
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl… — Bjork Copy Share Image
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
