If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want… — Johnny Ball Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it “maths” and he… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination. — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
“Every weapon of cryptanalytic science—which in the stratospheric realm of this solution drew heavily upon mathematics, using group theory, congruences, Poisson distributions—was… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up. — Dana White Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. — Claude Fayette Bragdon Copy Share Image
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
“It’d be quite absurd to equate a math equation with love. But that is exactly what I’ve done. I’m giving a four-hour… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
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