We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it. — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg 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
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 always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The basic premise of math is about efficiency. And when you've got racism, sexism, and bigotry, that's just standing in the way… — Glen Powell Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me,… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. — Gregory Meeks Copy Share Image
OK think of a number. Add 12 to the number. Subtract 2. Divide that number by 5. Add 20. Did you get 12? Neither did I. — Paige Carter Copy Share Image
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: They're dead. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician,… — Joseph Bertrand Copy Share Image
I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image