“Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.” — R.M. ArceJaeger Copy Share Image
Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“Clue: All numbers you can see belong in one equation. These numbers can all be written in 1 line instead of 3.” — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“You didn't miss anything in math," he says, and I recognize a Kent McFuller babble coming on.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.” — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
“Faith and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Always try to innovate. If you lose your old fitness, you lose out to Bose-Einstein condensation. I am sure that companies that… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily… — John A. Van de Walle Copy Share Image
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can… — Zeno of Elea Copy Share Image
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
There are lots of variables in relationships and I'm not good at math. — Emma Barthel Copy Share Image
“once all real numbers are taken into account, every point on the line corresponds to exactly one real number and every real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image