When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet. – Ron Eglash
Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a strong emotional appeal, which was reinforced by having an uncle who was an excellent surgeon. – Renato Dulbecco
Reading music is something that’s inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. – Robert Quine
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean. – Richard P. Feynman
My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. – Rudolph A. Marcus
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time. – Richard Bach
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics. – Robert Robinson
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn’t set out to be a businessperson. – Rodney Brooks
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in ‘Fortune Magazine’ which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. – Reinhard Selten
I haven’t had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. – Shakuntala Devi
I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong. – Simon McBurney
Not a lot of people know this, but I’m very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down. – Samantha Bond
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject. – Shakuntala Devi
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
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies. – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. – Stephen Cole Kleene
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. – Stephen Hawking
I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong… In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry – all these I have had the chance to study. – Sun Yat-sen
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. – Stephen Cole Kleene
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. – Steve Wozniak
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. – William Adams
Films are not mathematics – that’s the first thing you need to understand. At least, that’s how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film. – Shahid Kapoor
I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. – Walter Kohn
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, ‘How many of you love mathematics?’ and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! – Shakuntala Devi
The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect. – Yuri Milner
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. – Vannevar Bush
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. – Stephen Hawking
I have written a book called ‘In the Wonderland of Numbers.’ It’s about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician. – Shakuntala Devi