My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be,… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results. — Ada Hegerberg Copy Share Image
In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we've just got all-or-nothing. We need to give people another… — Liz Truss 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
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
