“Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer” — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance. — John Madden Copy Share Image
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Life is a math equation,in order to gain the most,you have to know how to convert the negatives into positives. — Nix Copy Share Image
The essential point is that, although coordinates are a powerful, and sometimes essential, tool in many calculations, the fundamental laws of physics… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
There have been numerous times when my career was supposed to be over because of mathematics, you know, age and numbers,' he… — Too Short Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“If you cannot trust people - trust numbers. Even if they look unbelievable - they never lie.” — Thomas Vato Copy Share Image
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math! — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image