Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. — John Cameron Copy Share Image
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there. — Kato Copy Share Image
... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)” — Sheridan Jobbins Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image