Math Quotes

I was particularly good at math and science.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

People who don't count won't count.

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.

To think deeply of simple things.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

A good student is one who will teach you something.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn't math.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.

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[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.