Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true..
Fourier is a mathematical poem..
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships..
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions..
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast..
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year..
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics..
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for….
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the student….
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patte….
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities..
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up..
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real..
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institution….
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of ma….
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself..
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrut….
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good ….
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself..
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane ….
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse..