I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?” — Ned Vizzini 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
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If I ever thought of directing again, I mean - I don't know, even the idea of directing a film is a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart 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
“To this day, the Clay Mathematics Institute's bounty of $1 million for anyone who can prove that all the non-trivial zeroes of… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which… — Len Evans Copy Share Image
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont Copy Share Image
“Do you know why I love mathematics?" "Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs?" Eccles snorted in… — Brendan Halpin Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig 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
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image