Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. — Wallace B. Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
TEACHER: If you had five apples on your desk & the Boy next to you took three, what would you have?...STUDENT: A… — Olubayo Adebiyi Copy Share Image
'Do you have a cell phone?' Translation: I want your number but I don't want to make this awkward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies… — James Luceno Copy Share Image