“Mathematical truth is immutable; it lies outside physical reality... This is our belief; this is our core motivating force.” — Joel Spencer Copy Share Image
I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. — Ivars Peterson 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
“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
“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical… — Stephen Senn Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“Q: Why does a hen always lay eggs? A: If she dropped eggs, they would break!! What starts with “T”, end with… — Tanveer Ahmed Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I used to be jealous; I'm not jealous anymore. And a miracle happened to me, because if you're jealous, it's a cancer,… — Marc Maron 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
“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
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
What is love??? In math a problem, In history a war, In chemistry a reaction, And in drawing a heart. — Laine Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to… — Gian-Carlo Rota 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
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
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
I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
A gun is not a math problem, I won't even think, Just leave ya dead like the mink under my sink. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image