Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Magic is like a lot of other disciplines that people have recently begun developing, in historic terms. Working with magic is a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
“I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thread, a single moment of… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We’ll start with an easy one, shall we? What is the secant of three pi?” The troll asked. “Pie?” Toru felt suddenly… — Noor Al-Shanti Copy Share Image
I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics -… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam 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
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics. — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image