As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I spent six months working as a temp in Hanslow Library and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat...I'm… — Donna Noble Copy Share Image
Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems. — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old… — Howard Aiken Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and… — John Banville Copy Share Image
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“You’re probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone’s better at math than I am, but it’s okay, I’m… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is my favorite subject ,adding colors to your life and substract the negative vibes. — Chinney Copy Share Image
I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it. — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated. — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
Im still waiting for the day that I will actually use all the Mathematics formula in real life ! — Carissa Aydaa Copy Share Image
“It's math, ' Nora says. 'Math has no authority here, ' June tells her 'Math is everywhere, June.” — Casey McQuiston Copy Share Image
When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen. — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I… — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image