Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.” — Lawrence Young Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
My daughter has a couple of those small calculators, but she never uses them. I think they're fine if you need to… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
9.What is love? In math: an equation; in history: a war; in chemistry: a reaction; in art: a heart; in me: YOU. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths. — Robert Toth Copy Share Image
“Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus? — Eric Yuan Copy Share Image