Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take… — Siméon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital… — John F. Tierney Copy Share Image
“I went into physics to hang around with the bright kids. I wasn’t doing anything else and I didn’t want to look… — Leon Max Lederman Copy Share Image
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers),… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle.… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at… — Matteo Manassero Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
When you could discern a real threat from everything else, it was called caution. When you couldn't, it was called paranoia. ...… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
