For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“I still remember the day I got my first calculator Teacher: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everyone take a… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“The number 8 is well-rounded, circular, continuous, consistent, connected—and eternal. These are the same outcomes you can create and enjoy when you… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal. — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Whats LOVE? in math: A problem _ in history: A war _ in chemistry: A reaction _ in art: A heart _ in me: YOU :) — Cut!E_thEa Copy Share Image
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given… — Rozsa Peter Copy Share Image
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“4.23..If 'thought' means: instance of the subject in a truth-procedure, then there is no thought of this thought, because it contains no… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Students famous nightmare is that when teacher start victimizing who will go to the blackboard to resolve a mathematics exercise . — MLY AB Copy Share Image
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions. — Peter Tait Copy Share Image
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
School is pointless! English: We speak it. History: They're dead, get over it. Math: 1+1 = 2 Beyonce taught us that. Spanish: We have Dora... — Anonymous Copy Share Image