Science Quote by Marie Benedict

“When the noise died down, she could lose herself in mathematics—in attempts to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity—and forget the world…

— David Lagercrantz

“She swore she could prove it mathematically, but the calculations required were so involved that they would have required a computer the size of…

— Lev Grossman

“Norma looked at him, puzzled. "Someone else to do the mathematics?" "Of course!" Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and adjusted his…

— B. Herbert, K.J. Anderson

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education…

— Albert Einstein

“What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had a purpose,…

— Terry Pratchett

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

“She wanted to know how Galileo and Newton and Einstein discovered the things they discovered. She wanted to know how they could have lived…

— Amy Zhang

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty.…

— Tom Stoppard

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini