Bits Quote by Yann Martel

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what…

— Margaret Wertheim

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

— Honore de Balzac

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

— Jeanette Winterson

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is…

— Daniel Tammet

“When a puppy reaches maturity is becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used up, we…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“By the early 1600s mathematicians had managed to crank out an approximation of pi that was accurate to 35 digits, which is far more…

— David Stipp

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

— Leopold Kronecker

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

— Dan Brown

Religion is an irrational construct.

— Michel Onfray

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of…

— Muhammad Iqbal