[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
“Felismerés a sokszögekkel kapcsolatban: A szemközti oldalak száma egyenesen arányos.” — Gerviba Copy Share Image
“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either. — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image