I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science… — Laura Osnes Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But… — Tony Robbins 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
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble.… — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“The language of categories is affectionately known as "abstract nonsense," so named by Norman Steenrod. This term is essentially accurate and not… — Paolo Aluffi Copy Share Image
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded.… — Herbie Hancock 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
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained by a number of factors… — Csaba Gabor Copy Share Image
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would… — Émilie Du Châtelet Copy Share Image
The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image