In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was… — Bob Inglis Copy Share Image
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr 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
If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?" — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Wallace Carothers Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.… — Sterling Beaumon Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math… — Danica McKellar 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
President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his? — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out,… — Norm MacDonald 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
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except… — Suzan Shown Harjo Copy Share Image
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars,… — Kato Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz 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
Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
![“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.” quote by Mary Everest Boole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/mary-everest-boole-58686_evidence_mathematics-had-never-had-more-than-a-se_23148.png)
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