The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable. — Alexander Dewdney Copy Share Image
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.” “What an accomplishment. No one has ever done… — S.A. Stovall Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Why is it that everyone complains about math I mean what about history and gym I mean those classes suck — Drew Fonner Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“The choice of ten basic number symbols—that is, the Hindus’ choice of the base 10 for counting and doing arithmetic—is presumably a… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and… — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
I think that there is that special equation for everything, but I dont think our mathematics have evolved enough for us to… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Just because there is strength in numbers doesn't mean that the majority is always right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.' — Terry Moore Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image