If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya Copy Share Image
There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student,… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations… — John Pople Copy Share Image
“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“She’d been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes 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
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles;… — Michael Loceff 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
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