I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.” — Patricia Geary Copy Share Image
Teacher: Where the hell is your math homework? Me: It committed suicide, had too many problems! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.” “What an accomplishment. No one has ever done… — S.A. Stovall Copy Share Image
“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
In school, when I got into upper-level math, there would be times when I would wake up from a dream and have… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind,… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
