We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with ma….
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or anot….
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations..
I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And….
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them..
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispens….
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself..
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'..
C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science..
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century af….
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room fo….
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it..
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck..
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'..
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth..
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and th….
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve..
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution..
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can on….
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significa….
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory tha….