I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Only you can add love, subtract hate, divide sadness and multiply happiness. Only you can do that type of math. — Maria Copy Share Image
People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Then that is your problem, I surmise,” Lightsong said. “We’re gods, my dear, and we quickly grow tired of our immortal existences.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person.… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard… — Nathaniel Bowditch Copy Share Image
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and… — Christie Laing Copy Share Image
“Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life." (Life Hacks, p.51)” — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance. — John Madden Copy Share Image
“Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image