Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.” — Amir Alexander Copy Share Image
The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music. — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math. — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology. — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless. — Isadore Singer Copy Share Image
“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth… — Robert Burnham Copy Share Image
“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
