The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Just because the devil's got your number doesn't mean you've got to answer the call. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present. — John Donne 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
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
My life may be encapsulated by one of Graham Greene's "entertainments" titles: 'Loser Takes All'. Since I was thrown out of highschool… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe whoever wants to venture into the World of Science should firstly understand the purity of mathematics, for noone can live… — Dielnov Muchati Copy Share Image
“Mr. Merrick, I'd like to speak with you." Mr. Merrick . He hated when teachers called him that, like he was an… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my… — Drew Chadwick Copy Share Image
“My high numbers were test scores, the low numbers and zeros: homework. Because my brain stores random unimportant bits of information like… — Laura Creedle Copy Share Image
“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I'm admitting girl, I'm not so good at math, but according to my calculations you're my other half. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians… — David Auburn 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
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard… — Ellen Kaplan Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I… — Danica McKellar 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
If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image