Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music..
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….
The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that..
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting ….
You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down..
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 ….
The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get..
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns..
All models are wrong, but some are useful..
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took….
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….
To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself….
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….
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy….
Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid..
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?".
I just am not good at math..
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….
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….
When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand. "Probably sooner than….
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been ex….