Mathematics Quote by Jean Lee Latham

“A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.”

— Mary Lou Heiss

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...…

— Barry Mazur

My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise…

— Marvin Minsky

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity;…

— Jacques Pepin

I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives…

— Mary Kay Ash

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

— Rachel Riley

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight…

— Susan Jacoby

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky