We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
That always seemed the coolest thing to me. How do you use num'bers to predict things? It was like a cool way… — Daryl Morey Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
“People who don’t love math always accuse mathematicians of trying to make math complicated,” Dr. Li had said. “But anyone who does… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if… — Heather Wilson Copy Share Image
Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the… — Pafnuty Chebyshev Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“People often think computers are all about numbers, but they’re not. Computers are all about logic.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“This is not mathematics, it is theology. (On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)” — Paul Gordan Copy Share Image
Relationships were meant only for two people; unfortunately for some of us, math is not our favorite subject. — London Mond Copy Share Image
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.” — Lynne Barasch Copy Share Image
I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero. — Hamsalekha Copy Share Image
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
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