Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
I thought math, especially when I was younger, is something you either love or hate. I had been blessed to be able… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal… — Daniel Tammet 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
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there… — Katherine Johnson Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship between mathematics and the world began to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones,… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
After graduating from Stanford business school, I was working at McKinsey, crunching numbers for spreadsheets. — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
6+3=9.But so does 5+4.The way you do things isn't always the only way to do them.Respect other people's way of thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, by placing our fingers on a given problem, no matter how trite or pedestrian it apparently seems, we may end… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.” — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
What is love??? In math a problem, In history a war, In chemistry a reaction, And in drawing a heart. — Laine Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image