The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the… — Mark Shriver Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon 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
Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third,… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect. — Judah Friedlander 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
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Math-thinking, I would say, encourages flipping and substituting letters in words (in the novel, one of the boys double-majors in math and… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
