... 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
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“I went into physics to hang around with the bright kids. I wasn’t doing anything else and I didn’t want to look… — Leon Max Lederman Copy Share Image
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital… — John F. Tierney Copy Share Image
“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers),… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take… — Siméon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle.… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“What a shame," signed the Dodecahedron. "They're so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though… — Chris Parnell Copy Share Image
The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other.… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image