A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
School is pointless! English: We speak it. History: They're dead, get over it. Math: 1+1 = 2 Beyonce taught us that. Spanish: We have Dora... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Only in math problems can you buy 60 cantaloupes and nobody asks what the hell is wrong with you. — Nate Copy Share Image
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which… — Wallace D. Wattles 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
Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
I'm still waiting for the day that I will actually use xy+(4 20) > x-5y[2+9-7] in real life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image