Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
“So you're not going to die, are you?" she [Astor] asked politely. "Not yet," I said. "Not until after you do your… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
“A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.” — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks… — David Berlinski 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
“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Life is like Mathematics.. So many problems.. But every problem has solution in it... — Leave Me Alone Copy Share Image
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new -… — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Even athletic directors can do the simple math. Five conferences, five power conferences, and only four slots. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image