For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large… — Steve Lohr Copy Share Image
“Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded.… — Herbie Hancock 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
