I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to… — George Polya Copy Share Image
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I… — Khleo 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
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts.… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved.… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.” — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Copy Share Image
