“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“To be an engineer, and build a marvelous machine, and to see the beauty of its operation is as valid an experience… — Calvin C. Clawson Copy Share Image
Im not saying Im number one, uh sorry I lied Im number one two three four and five. — Krs One Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I believe in numbers. The ones you can see and the ones you can't. The real and the imaginary, the rational and… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress. — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. — George Boole Copy Share Image
Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Copy Share Image
“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one,… — Balfour Stewart Copy Share Image
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is… — Brian L. Silver Copy Share Image
“We're not doing maths again?' Harriet lamented. Lord Winstead looked at Anne with unconcealed curiosity. 'Mathematics? On Rotten Row?' 'We have been… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
“My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life’s minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
As a girlchild in the early-to-mid 1980s, I wasn't expected to like math. So I stopped liking math. As a young woman,… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
The way how God does his Maths to bless a person, is very high tech to a normal human being, they can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image