“Every single day, someone asks Mr. Stetman why we have to learn algebra. You can tell this causes him great personal pain.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In the online math class, there was almost no meaningful student/teacher or student/student interaction. To equate this type of online learning with… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember doing 5th grade math when I was like seven years old. My parents just constantly pushed me, in a good… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today. — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Algebra is my favorite subject...because you can replace my X without asking me Y. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.” — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive.… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Being good at mathematics is not necessarily the same as being fast at it. Taking the time to understand things properly is… — Lara Alcock Copy Share Image
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
