The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We’ll start with an easy one, shall we? What is the secant of three pi?” The troll asked. “Pie?” Toru felt suddenly… — Noor Al-Shanti Copy Share Image
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't… — Chris Vance Copy Share Image
The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded,… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“What a shame," signed the Dodecahedron. "They're so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first,… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other.… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image