“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher… — Anna Nalick Copy Share Image
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light… — Ernest Solvay Copy Share Image
The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost… — John Nash Copy Share Image
“I remember our childhood days when life was easy and math problems hard. Mom would help us with our homework and dad… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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![“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to…” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e5b/paul-lockhart-18353_geometry_be-honest-did-you-actually-read-the-abov_1114656.png)
![“In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with…” quote by Hassan Blasim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/322/hassan-blasim-14317_all-kinds_in-art-class-at-school-we-learned-how-to_1258039.jpg)
![“It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.” quote by Steve Jurvetson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b87/steve-jurvetson-7311_awe_it-is-this-breathtaking-image-of-success_1117152.png)
![“Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2ee/aristotle-78_able_now-that-practical-skills-have-developed_114834.jpg)
