Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Honor is the number 1 think you should always keep and your pride you should always seek. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never pay attention in math, but if I did, I still could not calculate how much I LOVE YOU! — Jerome_siso Copy Share Image
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“Tengo has an innate knack for precision in all realms, including correct punctuation and discovering the simplest possible formula necessary to solve… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
“My math is so fuzzy you should pet it. Four minus two isn’t two, because between two and four minus two is… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous,… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an… — Pierre Simon De Laplace Copy Share Image
My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
