Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare..
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental ….
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up….
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in abou….
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific resul….
Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math pr….
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some tech….
Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segr….
I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit a….
The best defense against logic is ignorance..
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy..
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?.
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth..
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the w….
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories..
Numbers rule the universe..
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it..
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue ….
Whenever you can, count..
The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it or you get other ideas and mayb….