Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No,… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The same operation which makes “q” from “p”, makes “r” from “q”, and so on. This can only be expressed by the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
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Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
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“In short, I never yet encountered the mere mathematician who could be trusted out of equal roots, or one who did not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven,… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
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