Belief Quote by Stephen Colbert

I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters, and symbols.

— Stephen Colbert

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at…

— Michael Atiyah

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far…

— Stephen Hawking

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and…

— Daniel Tammet

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we…

— George Polya

What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is…

— Nathan Seiberg

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that…

— Trisha Yearwood

“Bjerknes had come up with equations capable of describing the behavior of the atmosphere. The state of the atmosphere at any point could be…

— Heidi Cullen

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without…

— Frederick Seitz