You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot… — Reuben Hersh Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more… — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me. — Zaza Pachulia Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight,… — Gil Kalai Copy Share Image
“what is JUST in a world you’ve ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let… — Brian X. Foley Copy Share Image
“He wished that the mathematics of the world were like the mathematics of the heart - then his equal love and hate… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
