Mathematics Quote by Ken Follett

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“Hands-on learning and the use of tools, he says, helps us to want to learn, to get rapid feedback, and to actually grasp math…

— Shane Snow

“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths (fig. 143).…

— Walter Isaacson

“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content with nothing…

— Neal Stephenson

“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always…

— John Lennox

“The essence of math is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

— Anonymous

“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels…

— G.H. Hardy

“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want them all."…

— Jerry Spinelli

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer…

— Michael Francis Atiyah