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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.
There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.
In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.
That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Comedy is math, music is math, and editing is, so I think those all work together.