#math

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When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.


Alanis Morissette


#anger #avoidance #because #bit #deal

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.


Alanis Morissette


#avoidance #deal #i #later #left

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.


Jamie Murphy


#child #like #mathematics #music #nursery

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.


Nikola Tesla


#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.


John Forbes Nash, Jr.


#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.


John Forbes Nash, Jr.


#i #mathematics #resigned #spring #through

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.


Liam Neeson


#enjoyed #geometry #i #maths #slow

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.


Howard Nemerov


#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

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


#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.


Simon Newcomb


#any #civil #civil war #development #direction