Quotes About Elementary Mathematics

#1. The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

Peter Thiel

#3. My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.

Richard J. Roberts

#4. When someone insults me, it makes me angry." "If that's true, then your feelings will always be at the mercy of others.

Catherine M. Wilson

#5. I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

Andrew Carnegie

#6. My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

Frances Harper

#7. I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.

Eric Ripert

#8. Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.

Elias James Corey

#10. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H.G.Wells