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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. -- Shakuntala Devi
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. -- James Dyson
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. -- Bertrand Russell
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. -- David Gross
I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. -- Simon Newcomb
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. -- Edmund Husserl
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. -- Jacob Epstein
I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects. -- Viswanathan Anand
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods. -- Rachel Cusk
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. -- Henry Petroski
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject. -- G. H. Hardy
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study. -- Alec Guinness
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. -- Edward Kasner
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking... -- G. Stanley Hall
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances. -- William Godwin
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. -- Carl Gustav Hempel

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