“Excel suffers from an image problem. Most people assume that spreadsheet programs such as Excel are intended for accountants, analysts, financiers, scientists,… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen,… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
I studied physics 12 in summer school after I completed grade 12. Did I enjoy it initially? No, I had found physics… — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
“To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties… — Paul Joseph Cohen Copy Share Image
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread… — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time… — Hugo Rossi Copy Share Image
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image