Boys Quote by Brent Scowcroft

The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the rigor back…

— Scott Bessent

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

— David Hilbert

“Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For so long, Arab culture has been misconceived by the western mindset as exotic, or more recently, as dangerous, so spaces like Mathaf are…

— Munira Mirza

An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's…

— Amartya Sen

Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association…

— Miranda Devine

Mathematics may not teach us how to end world hunger, create world peace or fix a broken heart. But it does teach us that…

— Savannah Yates

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take…

— Sandra Tsing Loh