With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ...… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
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