The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards..
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it..
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people..
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid….
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw ou….
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair..
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods..
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers..
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar c….
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty..
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pe….
To think deeply of simple things..
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit we….
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state..
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have….
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the ….
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, b….
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4..
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise..
It is not certain that everything is uncertain..