Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
“I reviewed some of his articles and knew Albert couldn’t manage all those mathematical calculations on his own. You were always better… — Marie Benedict Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
“I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
By the way, fuck your math. You ain't gotta count it my nigga I can add. 1 million, 2 million, 3 million,… — Jay Z Copy Share Image
“In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth π should have the value of "3". The… — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be… — Danica McKellar 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
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“So a)To what extent might human relationships be expressed in a mathematical or logical formula? And b) If so, what signs might… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the… — Euclid Copy Share Image
“I always consider myself as being bad in equation, of being a failure at Math. But when I start to count down… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“why is it that the simple, abstract language of mathematics can accurately capture so much of our infinitely complex world?” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
We're gonna add logs to this problem to manipulate it into giving us what we want...like an unhealthy relationship! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God,… — Hilda Phoebe Hudson Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Math will totally make you look like a slut. Example: You're a 25 year old mother of a 9th grader. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If the negative cube root of 64/9 doesn't one day save my life, there's gonna be one less math teacher in the world. — RapItUp Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
“Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics." There are so many things I wish I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot… — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
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