Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
A person who can, within a year, solve x 2 - 92y 2 = 1 is a mathematician. — Brahmagupta Copy Share Image
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
“I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out… — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead… — Violeta Parra Copy Share Image
I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
People in the media and press often say they've never been good at math. It might be that people that consider themselves… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics. — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones. — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
“Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer” — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
