#math

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#hard #hundred #look #mathematics #out

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#because #bill #bit #figure #i

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#go #i #into #leave #led

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aftermath #another #book #could #done

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#design #emotional #exact #eyebrows #give

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#dose #doubts #hath #mathematical #need

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#bother #eccentric #follow #interpretation #lines