Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal 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
When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration.… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“You can add new things to your life at every stage of your life: New ways, new habits, new ideas, new fears,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question. — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
“Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound… — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No,… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination. — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
