When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We… — Carl Sagan 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
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
“Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Government and Politics, my fellows, are lies. Purely and utterly. It is through numbers, however, that we as Man can even come… — Dr Hermann Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I was bored in maths 2day and I decided 2 draw a pic of my maths teacher LOL1 xxxx — Shaniaacannon Copy Share Image
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
