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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image