Math Quotes

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Math - it's not my best subject.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

In the one branch he most needed

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.