I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given… — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
Sex is like math you add the bed subtract the cloths divide your legs and pray you wont multiply!!!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. And it tells us our reality is continually branching into… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Everyone in sport chant; We're number one, we're number one. And someone asks; What's wrong with being number two? — Movie Copy Share Image
I give haircut to my son. I have made him learn mathematics table. I have also made him learn some spellings and… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“When reading math, it is important to know where in math you are—what region of this vast subject you are exploring.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants. — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution. — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
In every aspect of our lives we talk about numbers. We talk about cars in this way, houses, jobs. — Celine Song 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
