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Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
I wish I could've met my wife earlier. I do the math and I want 30 more years. I wish I'd started having kids earlier.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
My favorite subjects was science and math. But as I got older, I was hanging out cutting class, going to hooky parties.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math.
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.