The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the… — William Fogg Osgood Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner 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
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors. — Judith Faulkner Copy Share Image
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
