My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason. — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
“The things that fascinate me the most about mathematics are logical thought and the great importance attached to the correctness of propositions.… — Barbara Meier Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The only good thing about this math exam is that for each question I at least have a 25% chance of getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity… — John Pople Copy Share Image
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
“And you’re overthinking things, Charming. Do the math. Naked, interested man, check. Wet, willing woman, double check. Now insert part A into… — Jane Cousins Copy Share Image
You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What’s Julie’s number?” Curran glanced at me. “Julie’s fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Math may not be able to Add Love or Minus Hate But at least it can gives a great hope that Every… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers),… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out… — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together. — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
