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Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
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Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
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The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of… — John Golden Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
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When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
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I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America.… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
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