University President: "Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers."
permalink source: Isaac AsimovIf bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
permalink source: AnonymousPhilosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
permalink source: Anonymous2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for large values of 2.
permalink source: AnonymousYou know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren't divisible by two.
permalink source: Michael WolfAll science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When someone tells you that they know the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that you have heard from an inexact person.
permalink source: Bertrand RussellThe best mathematical equation I have ever seen: 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.
permalink source: AnonymousMath and Reality
Mathematics is a way of describing nature but not necessarily of understanding it.
permalink source: Kip Hodges, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, as quoted in The Canon by Natalie Angier, page 28