“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. — Janos Bolyai Copy Share Image
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
I had a thought that maths was the most complicated thing in the world, but now I came to knew that love… — Samuel Jebaraj Copy Share Image
“Scientists, famously, use a lot of mathematics, at least in many disciplines (including both cognitive science and economics). Much of this is… — Don Ross Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today’s prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.” — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Math teacher: I have 5 bottles in one hand, and 6 in the other. What do I have? Student: A drinking problem. — Babloo Copy Share Image
“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin. — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
“But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their… — Sara Wachter-Boettcher Copy Share Image
“If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...” — Doug Pierce Copy Share Image
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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