“ One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal… Isaac Asimov
“ Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary. Paul Lockhart
“ Do you mean ter tell me, he growled at the Dursleys, that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks… J.K. Rowling
“ Whoever said God is a mathematician or an architect was not paying attention. The universe behaves more like a song than an equation. God is the great composer. A song contain mathematical relationshi… R.A.Delmonico
“ However, as I hope to persuade you, there are some interesting connections between science and magic. They share a belief, as one mathematician put it, that what is visible is merely a superficial rea… Roger Highfield
“ Lynn, she saved half our faction from stuff, says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. Well, half of half of our faction.In some circles they call that… Veronica Roth
“ He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplica… Terry Pratchett
“ I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named Further Maths. It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance. Maureen Johnson
“ When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 sections of 64 measures (64=2^6), and I liked it even before I h… James Stein
“ Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything. Laurie Halse Anderson
“ If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. Émilie Du Châtelet
“ By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“ There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general… George Boole
“ Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have spent so much time calculating the value of Pi. He would have been baking he… David Klass
“ Yes," I continued, "I discovered this model recently and her style never fails to be mathematically perfect. She seems to come by it naturally. As if she were born resonant. I notice Japanese models t… Alexei Maxim Russell
“ Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest… G.H. Hardy
“ We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us. Max Tegmark
