Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“You can add new things to your life at every stage of your life: New ways, new habits, new ideas, new fears,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a 'maths brain.' Anyone can be numerate; it's just a matter of confidence. There are so many… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell once described mathematical beauty in the following words: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Thor again tutored me in the seventh grade, when I was learning Algebra. Algebra was quite an experience for me. Thor spent… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things… — P. V. Sindhu Copy Share Image
“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“what is JUST in a world you’ve ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
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