The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others. — Adrian Mathesis Copy Share Image
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Being good at mathematics is not necessarily the same as being fast at it. Taking the time to understand things properly is… — Lara Alcock Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
“Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King’s polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil. — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way. — George Polya Copy Share Image
I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in. — Hulk Hogan Copy Share Image
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