Math Quotes
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Math Quotes & Sayings
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If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy) ...
— Doug Pierce
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
— Danica McKellar
If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
— Calvin Trillin
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
— William Wordsworth
Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.
— Steve Maraboli
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
— Howard Whitley Eves
Fun math is an oxymoron.
— Kiera Cass
Math is easy; design is hard.
— Jeffrey Veen
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
— Willard Scott
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
— Hilda Phoebe Hudson
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
— Morris Kline
It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God
— Edwin Abejero
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
— Sandra Lerner
Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.
— Conan O'Brien
I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.
— MaryJanice Davidson
The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.
— Peter Watts
The last thing they want to hear is that math is really about raw creativity and aesthetic sensitivity. Many
— Paul Lockhart
Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you.
— Charles Duhigg
It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.
— Natasha Tsakos
I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.
— AnnaLynne McCord
The world was precarious, Lotto had learned. People could be subtracted from it with swift bad math.
— Lauren Groff
Where there is no math, there is no freedom.
— Edward Frenkel
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.
— David Graeber
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
— Immanuel Kant
I believe if every K-12 kid or college student was taught math with Mathematica far more of them would becomes scientists and engineers.
— Anonymous
The notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.
— Saunders Mac Lane
To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.
— David Alpay
Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
— Edward Griffith Begle
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
— Bruno Mars
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
— Meg Greenfield
merely changing how a math problem is presented on a page can change how your brain goes about solving it,
— Sian Beilock
I like Math because there's only one right answer.
— Brendan Fehr
By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
— Walter Isaacson
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
— Mary Callahan Erdoes
What is the answer, Evan? Ms Granger asked.
Giraffe, I wanted to answer. It was on the tip of my tongue. Giraffe.
This was in math class, — David Levithan
Giraffe, I wanted to answer. It was on the tip of my tongue. Giraffe.
This was in math class, — David Levithan
Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world
— Eric Thomas
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.
— David Plouffe
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
Math - it's not my best subject.
— Heather O'Rourke
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
— Edward Gibbon
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.
— Kristoffer Polaha
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
— Richard P. Feynman
I look around for someplace to sit, but of course there's nowhere. It's the bathroom in the math wing, not the bathroom in Blair Waldorf's house.
— Lauren Barnholdt
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.
— Billy Preston
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
— Richard P. Feynman
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.
— Henry John Stephen Smith
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.
— Heidi W. Durrow
I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
— Ian Williams
Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.
— Charles M. Schulz
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard
Here is an equation worth remembering: Five dollars earned minus seven dollars spent = Unhappy Life." (Life Hacks, p.51)
— Jon Morrison
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
— Mark Twain
I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.
— Karen Marie Moning
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
— Dakota Blue Richards
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
— Joseph De Maistre
Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.
— Donald Trump
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
— Mick Barr
Will America lead ... and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
— Susan Hockfield
The math is stark: cut the fat, and cut your cancer risk.
— Christopher McDougall
Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.
— Edward Frenkel
Oh, don't worry about that," said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. "We use the broken ones for fractions.
— Norton Juster
Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
— Danica McKellar
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.
— Margot Asquith
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
— Plato
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.
— Martin Gardner
Four out of three people are bad at math.
— Darynda Jones
I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.
— Marnie Stern
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
— Yuri Manin
I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.
— Roman Abramovich
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
— Enrico Bombieri
Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.
— Stephen Colbert
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
— Steven G. Krantz
Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward for both of us.
— Sariah Wilson
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I was told there would be no math
— Chip Kell
This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.
— Alexa Von Tobel
And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.
— William Joyce
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.
— Judah Friedlander
For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
— Buzz Aldrin
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
— Honore De Balzac
You have this weird look on your face," he said. "Like you're doing really complicated math in your head.
— Rachel Hawkins
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
— George Lucas
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
— Josh Lucas