Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I love it when you have an epiphany and suddenly get how to do a math problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not just a “numbers game,” it is a way of thinking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“...I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...” — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason. — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
“Although some of her passages seek to persuade the reader of the meaninglessness and marginalization of the mathematics, Hayles is content to… — Bloch William Goldbloom Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that… — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn, pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“The number 12 is good, the number 123 is better, but the number one is still the best.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math? — Philip J. Hanlon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image