I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did… — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
Muller isn't a number seven, a number nine, nor a number 10. He is everything and in between. — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Me: Okay brain, lets focus for just 45 minutes on this math test we can do this. Brain: DADADA BANANA LALALALALA AFRO… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya Copy Share Image
“MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS? ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS. MY FRIEND:… — KanyaACoffman Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, scout's honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself… — Shalini Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Do you like maths, if so add a bed, subtract your clothes, divide your legs and can we multiply? — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image