#math

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#friends #friendship #humor #math #piglet

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#math #patterns #science #sometimes

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#art #creative #creative art #i #i am

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#been #could #explain #hard #high

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. ↗

— Alexander Henry

#ancient #before #confront #ever #fast

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. ↗

— David Hilbert

#connection #in my opinion #indivisible #mathematical #opinion

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #build #children #credits #development

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible. ↗

— Willard Scott

#just #living #math #next #people

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone