The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“playing with numbers was still considered taboo, a subject best left to the later years, despite America’s obvious and enduring math handicap.… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of… — Adi Shamir Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up.… — RZA Copy Share Image
The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...” — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must. — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. — Andrew Wiles 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
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler 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
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 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
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
