We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there… — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Dear Math, I liked you so much more before you and the alphabet started hooking up. Sincerely, everyone. — Khat Leen Copy Share Image
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is “infinite complexity.” Fractals are the theological… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image