Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart 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
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
“Her touch is like doing simple math When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes There is a red ink, like a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“What’s Julie’s number?” Curran glanced at me. “Julie’s fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30… — Elizabeth Green Copy Share Image
“By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.' 'You can put it like that. I'm utterly useless.' 'Useless is such… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of certain aspects… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
“I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thread, a single moment of… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein 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
I never pay attention in math, but if I did, I still could not calculate how much I love you I pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi Copy Share Image
Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic;… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations, that… — John Von Neumann 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
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“That is what is marvelous about school, she realized: when you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
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