Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen,… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there"… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that.… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory? — Shmuel Weinberger Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
