“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon 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
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky 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
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics. — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to… — David Hilbert 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
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn’t remember what number comes after… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver… — Edward Mills Purcell Copy Share Image
“And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the… — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image