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I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team.… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The book was rife with abstract diagrams that blurred the boundaries between art, mathematics, and pornography. Triangles of stacked numbers, columns of… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself.… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in… — Louis P. Benezet Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“While researching this answer, I managed to lock up my copy of Mathematica several times on balloon-related differential equations, and subsequently got… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.… — Sterling Beaumon Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
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![“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take place.' 'The measure of the probability of an event is the ratio of the number of…” quote by George Boole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac8/george-boole-33776_chance_a-distinguished-writer-sim-on-denis-pois_3052857.jpg)
![“[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations...” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/paul-lockhart-18353_can-do_math-is-not-at-all-like-science-there-s_140084.jpg)
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