“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit.… — Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza Copy Share Image
“I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Colours, sounds, words and actions are all imbued with specific emotions, subjectively for each experience. It's therefor a great sorrow that the… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have… — Caleb Shomo Copy Share Image
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can… — Cornelius Lanczos Copy Share Image
Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.… — Kato Copy Share Image
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama,… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal,… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image