To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse..
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel..
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world..
One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer..
Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day..
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, b….
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an et….
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and ….
A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, nu….
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced h….
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source o….
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science..
I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look….
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation..
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers..
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore..
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy eve….
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think..
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21..
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith..
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has ….