Bullying Quote by Isobel Irons

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

“It was an admission of defeat. ... He knew he needed to do a better job of navigating the world, but he didn't know…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

“Walter amused them with a story of one of his students who had been caught cheating; the boy wrote some formulas for algebraic equations…

— Elise Hooper

“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

“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that…

— Neal Stephenson

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It is a little like developing the habit of stealing the test from your teacher’s desk instead of learning how to do the math.”

— Josh Waitzkin

“Tom was not good at math. He’d started to lose his way in middle school, as so many American kids did. It had happened…

— Amanda Ripley

“But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for…

— Robyn Schneider

“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Okay, so I may use basic math for doing my checking account, the percent-off sales on my favorite shoes, and other mundane things, but…

— Amanda Jason