To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
Tell me why is it easier if you know the number one? You prepare as though you are number one anyway. — Robert Green Copy Share Image
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Maybe being number one has got to me, because from there you can only go down. — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
By the way, fuck your math. You ain't gotta count it my nigga I can add. 1 million, 2 million, 3 million,… — Jay Z Copy Share Image
Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image