“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship… — Kenneth Minogue 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
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour.… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling… — Andrew Sturm Copy Share Image
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, I think it's just as well that they are being phased out of the war effort, and that we are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
“The enormous salaries paid to sports stars and entertainers lead people to believe that they are the most important people in our… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“But you don’t really think wearing a low-cut top to the boys’ party will solve all your problems, do you?” she asked.… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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