There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
I was really super into science an not at all in to politics. I think it was a reaction against the fact… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games,… — John Horton Conway Copy Share Image
The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nine equals eight … just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“It may be that mathematics is not generally recognized as one of the arts precisely because so much pyramidal training and practice… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“ Ohm found that the results could be summed up in such a simple law that he who runs may read it,… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental… — Hyman Bass Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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