To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh.… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment… — Denise Juneau 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
“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his? — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance 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
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was… — Bob Inglis Copy Share Image
Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
Relationships were meant only for two people; unfortunately for some of us, math is not our favorite subject. — London Mond Copy Share Image
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I… — David Hilbert 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
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky… — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the… — Pafnuty Chebyshev Copy Share Image
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
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