Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“He stared back like I was an advanced math problem he couldn't interpret.” — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world.… — Ivan Sutherland Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything… — George Andrews Copy Share Image
“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. NW: Yes, but I did… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mathematics does furnish the power for deliberate thought and accurate statement, and to speak the truth is one of the most social… — S.T. Dutton Copy Share Image