When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship...

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.[Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862]

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was ‘style’ and a result obtained with simple equipment was more...

One must divide one’s time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

If you can’t illustrate ‘it’, ‘it’ doens’t belong in Physics as a noun! You can’t put an article in front. You can’t put a verb after!

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying...

As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a useful course is to begin with arithmetic, and then not Euclid but algebra....

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the...

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the natural effect which is the object of the phenomenon… when this...

Every line is the perfect length if you don’t measure it.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting ‘class warfare,’ he answered it was ‘just math.’ But it’s more than math. It’s a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society:...

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are...

I don’t believe in mathematics.

ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics…

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Derrière la série de Fourier, d’autres séries analogues sont entrées dans la domaine de l’analyse; elles y sont entrees par la même porte; elles ont été imaginées en vue des applications.After the Fourier series, other...

[…] provability is a weaker notion than truth

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by...

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy...

What comes, is called.

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to...

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don’t know what you’d call it. A socktagon?

THINK, and do not sacrifice yourself to mathematical magic.

[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur...

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

That’s because, if correct, a mathematical formula expresses an eternal truth about the universe. Hence no one can claim ownership of it; it is ours to share. Rich or poor, black or white, young or...

Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l’humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au plus faible dègré, á des calculs ou raisonnements mathematiques.I am well aware of...

…in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers...

Schools were started to train human talents… The Guild… emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs… politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity...

Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was right. Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said...

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed...

They shouldn’t be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his...

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise...

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?Professor Jones: Yes, yes there is.

These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. ‘Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.’ …...

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is...

It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about...

Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of “anythings,” or become the thing – the unit – itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What...