Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
If you want to be at the top, if you want to be number one, you need to play against some of… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
“Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities and are not to be regarded as being conjured into existence at… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Sex is like math: You add the bed, subtract the clothes, divide the legs and pray you don't multiply. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Given that sin x = 1⁄4 and x is in Quadrant II, find the exact values of sin2 x and cos2 x… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
Remember when everyone lied and said you couldn't subtract a larger number from a lesser number and in high school, it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful. — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I went through a period of time when math was my favorite subject. Then math wasn't as fun so much. — Noah Gray-Cabey Copy Share Image
I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him. — Nikolay Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way… — ryan fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ” — Alice Kahn Copy Share Image
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward… — Sariah Wilson Copy Share Image