I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard… — Nathaniel Bowditch Copy Share Image
I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or… — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
“Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life." (Life Hacks, p.51)” — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and… — Christie Laing Copy Share Image
Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Only you can add love, subtract hate, divide sadness and multiply happiness. Only you can do that type of math. — Maria Copy Share Image
“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do… — Elayne Boosler 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
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person.… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Why can't life be easy, why can't love be just wonderful, why can't math be counting 1,2,3 Why it can't be you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance. — John Madden Copy Share Image
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
