It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is… — Klaus Kleinfeld 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
You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers. — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can… — George Polya Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
