Mathematics Quote by Amanda Ripley

“Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys…

— S.J. Kincaid

“the kid can learn, but he only wants to do one thing at a time. He could spend days on end hunched over just…

— Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson

“I thought about the hours we spent practicing increasingly complex math problems. He taught me that lack of knowledge and lack of intelligence were…

— J.D. Vance

“Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time…

— Mark Twain

“I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication…

— Mark Twain

“While he was to become adept at business, Hamilton, the man who was to found America’s financial system, as a schoolboy had to struggle…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell…

— Anthony Marra

“That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigorating to push…

— Paul Auster

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

— Wendy Lichtman

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon

“Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn’t say anything about falling over…

— Liane Moriarty (What Alice Forgot

“As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald