Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls… — Kristoffer Polaha Copy Share Image
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“It can only be our familiarity with soap bubbles from our earliest recollections, causing us to accept their existence as a matter… — C. Vernon Boys Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
