I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in… — Robert Eastaway Copy Share Image
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall.… — Phillip A. Griffiths 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
You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
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
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You… — Brian Greene 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
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math'… — Rudy Rucker 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
“Can I just say that I don't care if two planes or trains or whatever take off from different locations at different… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“For instance, in a book entitled Mathematics and the Imagination (published in 1940) the authors, Edward Kasner and James Newman, introduced a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
