Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem. — George Polya 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
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya Copy Share Image
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
