The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests… — Morton Ann Gernsbacher Copy Share Image
The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Then that is your problem, I surmise,” Lightsong said. “We’re gods, my dear, and we quickly grow tired of our immortal existences.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working… — Milo Aukerman Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It can only be our familiarity with soap bubbles from our earliest recollections, causing us to accept their existence as a matter… — C. Vernon Boys Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“Nine equals eight … just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
“In math, the backwards E, ∃, means there exists. ∈ means part of a set. A line through that ∉ means excluded… — Katrina Vandenberg Copy Share Image
“For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are… — Louis Poinsot Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image