“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
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
I remember watching Regis and Kathie Lee interview celebrities, and my mom looked so happy. I just did the math. I wanted… — Ross Mathews Copy Share Image
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child… — Laura Lippman 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 hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now… — Kato Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal 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
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread… — Kevin Ashton Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time… — Hugo Rossi Copy Share Image
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which… — Michio Kaku 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
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
...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
[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
“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
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Je me rends parfaitement compte du desagreable effet que produit sur la majorite de l'humanité, tout ce qui se rapporte, même au… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and… — Serge Haroche Copy Share Image
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the… — Rob Brydon Copy Share Image
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image