“He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only… — Martin Haberman Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“The number 8 is well-rounded, circular, continuous, consistent, connected—and eternal. These are the same outcomes you can create and enjoy when you… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I still remember the day I got my first calculator Teacher: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everyone take a… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For… — Daniel Goldston Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
“Naomi doubted that any human being really understood math, they simply all pretended to have it down pat, when in truth they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The ability to perform basic math calculations is certainly an integral part of playing fundamental poker. But in tournament poker, it's equally… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real… — Lynn Steen 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
“That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage,… — William Dunham Copy Share Image
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have… — George Polya 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
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is… — Hendrik Verwoerd Copy Share Image
There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“Our experience teaches us that there are indeed laws of nature, regularities in the way things behave, and that these laws are… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure mathematical results and the workings of the physical… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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“In our own time, algebra has become the most rarefied and demanding of all mental disciplines, whose objects are abstractions of abstractions… — Anonymous 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
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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