That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling… — Andrew Sturm Copy Share Image
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we've just got all-or-nothing. We need to give people another… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
“Topology is that branch of mathematics which is interested in the forms of things aside from their size and shape, Two things… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“In the chapter on prime numbers, I mentioned Bernhard Riemann's 1859 paper 'On the Number of Primes Less than a Given Magnitude'.… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements.… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling.… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
“We have seen that our numerical zero derives originally from the Hindu sunya, meaning void or emptiness, deriving from the Sanskrit name… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Problem Solving Toolbox • Draw a diagram or picture. • Act the problem out, step by step. • Make a systematic list,… — Denise Gaskins Copy Share Image
If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think.… — Kevin Sorbo Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any… — Pierre de Fermat s Copy Share Image
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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