Math Quotes

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

War can protect; it cannot create.

"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

This is not class warfare. It’s math.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

In the end, climate change is a math problem.

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

I was told there would be no math

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!