“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.” — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with no real grasp of the significance of what I was doing or its usefulness in solving real-world problems.… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share
“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“I will never listen to ocean waves or view a beautiful sunset in quite the same way again. That is perhaps the greatest gift… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
“I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii,… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
