Everything Quote by Hannah Fry

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

— Anonymous

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

— Neil Postman

Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones,…

— Richard Askey

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

— Paul Theroux

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be…

— George Dantzig

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

— Mark Noble

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to…

— Anya Kamenetz

Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections…

— Elijah Cummings

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct…

— Ernst Mach

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

— Richard Preston