At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created. — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will… — Thales Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math! — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. — John C. Baez Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals. — Terry J. Lundgren Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
*During math test* My answer: 28. Answer choices: 17, 19, 26, 45. Me: well 26 is closer to 28, so that must be the answer. — Mackenzie Copy Share Image
One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple:… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.” — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
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