#math

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#best #best work #date #do your best #else

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. ↗

— Colin Powell

#baghdad #fall #handled #history #i

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#been #discussion #end #filled #fund

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. ↗

— James Rainwater

#excelled #high #high school #i #mainly

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#because #been #calls #could #die

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. ↗

— Dan Rather

#arab #busy #calendar #driving #japan

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#degree #engineering #graduate degree #i #institute