Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever, fair-haired boy.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Haters got PhD's, y'all just some major haters and some math minors. — Cyhi Da Prynce Copy Share Image
Teacher: Where the hell is your math homework? Me: It committed suicide, had too many problems! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.… — Gosta Mittag-Leffler Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the… — Susan Elia MacNeal Copy Share Image
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“...the following parable may be useful. Long ago, when shepherds wanted to see if two herds of sheep were isomorphic, they would… — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
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