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
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
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
“A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.” — Anonymous 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
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
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost… — John Nash Copy Share Image
To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light… — Ernest Solvay Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I… — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's math, ' Nora says. 'Math has no authority here, ' June tells her 'Math is everywhere, June.” — Casey McQuiston Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to… — Constance Reid Copy Share Image
I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars,… — Kato Copy Share Image
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except… — Suzan Shown Harjo Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image