Cold Corners

We boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young

Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. - Henry Smith

You painted us into a corner, then you threw away the key. - Archie Bunker

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. - Claude Monet

High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. - Stephen Hawking

At night they all come out of the subway and they're hooverin' around the corner. - Archie Bunker

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert

I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation. - John W. Thompson

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. - Eric Idle

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. - David Seabury

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess, and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride

Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else. - Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft

Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, and use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth. - David Skok

I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation. - Mark Batterson

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey

Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. - Malaika A. Khan