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It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.
You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.
I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatever you wish.
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.
In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.
I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.