A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any… — david wells Copy Share Image
I was really super into science an not at all in to politics. I think it was a reaction against the fact… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
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