Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I'm still waiting for the day that I will actually use xy+(4 20) > x-5y[2+9-7] in real life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
“When reading math, it is important to know where in math you are—what region of this vast subject you are exploring.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants. — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a… — Christopher Steiner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
Madonna's always going to be number one, but I'm definitely a Britney fan. — Guillermo Diaz Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image