The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
When you could discern a real threat from everything else, it was called caution. When you couldn't, it was called paranoia. ...… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
“As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle.… — Darold Treffert 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
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
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Samuil Shatunovsky Copy Share Image
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
