When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other… — David M. Kelley Copy Share Image
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning… — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and… — George Pólya Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important… — Herbert Turnbull 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
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of… — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I used to be jealous; I'm not jealous anymore. And a miracle happened to me, because if you're jealous, it's a cancer,… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and… — Mary Somerville Copy Share Image
You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
