If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that….

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational..

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.".

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships..

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education..

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance..

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism….

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there..

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers..

If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in t….

What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without un….

More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we ne….

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame ….

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it..

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonin….

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter..

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I re….

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way..

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation..

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intell….

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects l….