“Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.” — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.” — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Being the best is great, I'm number one. But being unique is greater, I'm the only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number. — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that… — Latto Copy Share Image
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
If you have a problem with me, text me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
The reason the gifted students of the world like Khan Academy is because we don't say, 'Memorize this formula,' but say, 'Let's… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image