All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other… — David M. Kelley Copy Share Image
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
“Working an integral or performing a linear regression is something a computer can do quite effectively. Understanding whether the result makes sense—or… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Teachers of subjects that this person wasn't even good at are kissing this person and renouncing the very subjects they taught. Math… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
“The basic problem for Lawrence was that he was lazy. He had figured out that everything was much simpler if, like Superman… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel… — Raha Moharrak Copy Share Image
“He started Number the Stars before we were even out of the store. "The only problem is, I already know how it… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and… — George Pólya Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then… — Gary William Flake Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
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