A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer. — George Polya Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I don't have a number set that I'm chasing, but I do believe I'll be a champion at 140, and again at 147. — Mikey Garcia Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Why “The New Math” when it is primarily a book dealing with social issues? Things add up eventually which is why “The… — Thee Ace Man Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover.… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
“The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this… — Bonnie Gaunt Copy Share Image
I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing.… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image