I'm still number one, so don't forget about that. So I still can have a happy ending. — Yani Tseng Copy Share Image
“If I gave you my number would it still be the same If I saved you from drowning?” — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything? — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
“That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon 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
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age… — Julia Robinson Copy Share Image
“The first part, or the Æsthetics, which has nothing in common with art, disengages the a priori forms of sensible knowledge, namely,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“In One Dimensions, did not a moving Point produce a Line with two terminal points? In two Dimensions, did not a moving… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Copy Share Image
What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer. — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
