“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. — John Cameron Copy Share Image
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Math may not teach me how to add love or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman… — Tessa Dare 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
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos 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
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really,… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it. — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. — Mick Barr Copy Share Image
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image