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I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.
I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.