"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
- John von Neumann
"The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts."
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
"Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, bu..."
- Douglas Adams
"... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math."
- Emma Donoghue
"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and..."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentia..."
- David G. Wells
"Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help..."
- Piero Scaruffi
"School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy."
- Steven Magee
"If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable"
- Ilyas Kassam
"The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average."
- P.J. O'Rourke