About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“(When God said, “Be fruitful and multiply” [Genesis 1:28], he wasn’t giving math homework.)” — Gregory K. Popcak Copy Share Image
Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects. — David Crane Copy Share Image
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night." — Johann Bernoulli Copy Share Image
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I just learned this sub-teaching. . . Teacher (math problem): If you had five apples on your desk and the boy next… — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but… — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him. — Nikolay Konstantinov Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a 'maths brain.' Anyone can be numerate; it's just a matter of confidence. There are so many… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
![“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the…” quote by John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d43/john-aubrey-29611_convinced_about-thomas-hobbes-he-was-40-years-old_1668279.jpg)
![“(When God said, “Be fruitful and multiply” [Genesis 1:28], he wasn’t giving math homework.)” quote by Gregory K. Popcak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/321/gregory-k-popcak-53309_mathematics_when-god-said-be-fruitful-and-multiply-g_1670716.jpg)
![“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God…” quote by Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e3d/sara-maitland-25002_absolutes_georg-cantor-was-the-first-to-prove-that_1684039.jpg)
