A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths. — Harry Styles Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. — John Deacon Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat.… — Ally Carter 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
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Yes, I took a remedial algebra course in college. I struggled in math in high school and didn’t have confidence to plunge… — Jim Stafford Copy Share Image
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image