“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”— Ada Lovelace, en.wikiquote.org
“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Can we call something with which the concepts of position and motion cannot be associated in the usual way, a thing, or a particle? And if not, what is the reality which our theory has been invented to describe? The answer to this is no longer physics, but philosophy.…Here I will only say that I am…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“We built pyramids before Donald Trump even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos was born.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“A mathematician stumbles home drunk at 3 a.m and his wife is livid. “You SWORE that you’d be home by 11:45!” "No," slurs the mathematician “I said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.””— Droct12, reddit.com
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduce…”— Henry David Thoreau, theamericanreader.com
“George Mackey: How could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof, how could you believe that extraterrestrials are sending you messages? Steve Nash: Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriou…”— George Mackey, Steve Nash, amazon.com
“The terms in mathematical definitions or axioms can never be fully defined, but at one point or another must be resolved on grounds other than those of formal mathematics, grounds where persons have some general agreement regarding the meaning of words in real life, as the foundations of mathematics…”— Walter J Ong, amazon.com