The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought. — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
