I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't have a number set that I'm chasing, but I do believe I'll be a champion at 140, and again at 147. — Mikey Garcia Copy Share Image
For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Scarcity Is Counting The Number Of Seeds In An Apple. Abundance Is Contemplating The Number Of Apples In A Seed. May You… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Faith and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird. — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email. — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture. — Bertrand Russel Copy Share Image
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for… — Albert Outler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either. — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
~Dear math, I liked you alot better before you and the alphabet started hooking up Sincerely Student~ — Im Nothing 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
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image