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  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

    Love   Math   Science  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press
  • My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

    Mother   Teacher   Father  
    Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com
  • Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

    Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
  • The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

    Math   Spirit   Madness  
    Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
  • When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

    Sports   Hurt   Fun  
    "Wil Wheaton Stands Up For Nerds Everywhere In Touching Response To Young Fan". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.
  • I was x years old in the year x2.

    Education   Math   Years  
  • We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

    Jobs   Writing   Math  
  • If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

    Believe   Math   Simple  
    John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.
  • In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

    School   Math   Thinking  
    "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.
  • The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

    George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”
  • Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

  • I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

    "An Introduction to Mathematics" by Alfred North Whitehead, Ch. 1, 1911.
  • 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.

    Math   Degrees   Chef  
  • The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

    1950 Out of My LaterYears.
  • Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

    Beauty   Math   Apology  
    A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
  • Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

    Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen
  • In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

    Math   Successful   Long  
  • Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

    Music   Math   Science  
  • If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

    Math   Men   Littles  
    Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285
  • Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

    Math   Magic   Cards  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in an education and just as important as any other endeavour in our lives.

    Art   Educational   Math  
  • I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

    Stupid   Believe   Guy  
    Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press
  • Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

    Math   Science   Errors  
    "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
  • Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

    Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press
  • If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

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