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An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.
Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.
Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.
I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.