Think of a number. Double it. Add six. Half it. Take away the number you started with. Your answer is three. Mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil. — Jordan Ellenberg 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
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." — Alexander Dewdney Copy Share Image
“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“It is the dull and elementary parts of applied mathematics, as it is the dull and elementary parts of pure mathematics, that… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Why did math matter so much? Some reasons were practical: More and more jobs required familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry. The… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Put the number seven in front of a mirror and what do you have? If you answered 77, then perhaps you talk… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "I'm going to learn it by osmosis.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics,… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
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