[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue ….

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get..

The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in abou….

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds….

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How gr….

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was ho….

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that..

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?.

Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imita….

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down..

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some tech….

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius a….

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit a….

It has been proven time and time again in countless studies that students who actively participate in arts education are twice as likely to read for ….

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing n….

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..

It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, ….

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically..

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrut….

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..

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mys….