Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this. — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“We’ll start with an easy one, shall we? What is the secant of three pi?” The troll asked. “Pie?” Toru felt suddenly… — Noor Al-Shanti Copy Share Image
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.” — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz 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
I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France 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
“A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded,… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
“Tengo's lectures took on uncommon warmth, and the students found themselves swept up in his eloquence. He taught them how to practically… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
