I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught. — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution. — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
“Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.” — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, by placing our fingers on a given problem, no matter how trite or pedestrian it apparently seems, we may end… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover.… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this… — Bonnie Gaunt Copy Share Image
You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Despite their ubiquity on the number line, transcendentals are surprisingly hard to pin down. It took until 1873 to prove that e… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better. — Arnold Sommerfeld Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
“A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.” — Amy Riekhof Copy Share Image
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject. — Sanya Malhotra Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
