I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
As a girlchild in the early-to-mid 1980s, I wasn't expected to like math. So I stopped liking math. As a young woman,… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that. — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
“Mama, you know, lost all her enthusiasm for mothering by Baby Number Seven. What a pity she did not lose her enthusiasm… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
“Her touch is like doing simple math When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes There is a red ink, like a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“To this day, the Clay Mathematics Institute's bounty of $1 million for anyone who can prove that all the non-trivial zeroes of… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics. — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is a paradox; as is a paradox why the number 1 is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
“I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it… — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it's a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Clue: All numbers you can see belong in one equation. These numbers can all be written in 1 line instead of 3.” — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
“And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is… — Terri Fields Copy Share Image