Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I don't know much about algebra, but I know one plus one equals two and it's me and you, thats all we'll… — Beyonce Copy Share Image
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“mathematics professor in Russia slugging it out with another mathematics professor in India, kilobyte for kilobyte, over some stupefyingly arcane detail in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
“The imaginaries finally lost their air of impossibility when nineteenth-century mathematicians realized that they're actually perfectly ordinary, law-abiding numerical beings-it's just that… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Copy Share Image
Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some… — David Bressoud Copy Share Image
At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers.… — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Dear math worksheet, Please don't have a back, please don't have...Awe shit, theres a back. Sincerely, fuck you I have better things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Dear Math, I am sick and tired of finding your X. Just accept the fact that she is gone. MOVE ON DUDE. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.” — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.” — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
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