“If he would just work with pure ideas like a proper mathematician he could go as fast as thought. As it happens,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“But just what are imaginary numbers, you may now be asking yourself, and what on earth could it mean to raise e… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Norma looked at him, puzzled. "Someone else to do the mathematics?" "Of course!" Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and… — B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit.… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“The ease with which collaboration occurs in mathematical research and the essential similarity of the fruits of such collaboration to that of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Just wanted to make sure the number wasn't a fake," Az said. She couldn't help her bitter laugh. "Well, you can go… — Leah Clifford Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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