Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important… — Marston Morse Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
After graduating from Stanford business school, I was working at McKinsey, crunching numbers for spreadsheets. — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which… — Omar Khayyam 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
The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it,… — Magnus Pyke Copy Share Image
I put up O.K. numbers - not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys - but O.K. numbers. — Ken Griffey Jr Copy Share Image
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
