“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math… — Justin Lee Copy Share Image
Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were… — Alex Bellos Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in… — Alan Lawrence Sitomer Copy Share Image
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery, “A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses,” Annals of Mathematics, 152 (2000), 881–901.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
OK think of a number. Add 12 to the number. Subtract 2. Divide that number by 5. Add 20. Did you get 12? Neither did I. — Paige Carter Copy Share Image
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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