Math Is Quotes

#1. 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.

Michael Loceff

#2. I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play with her. I take two classes at middle school, math and chorus, and I love walking home with her after school.

Emily Alyn Lind

#3. At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.

Gemma Chan

#4. It is not the job of mathematicians ... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

Samuil Shatunovsky

#5. Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

Edward Frenkel

#6. There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

Danica McKellar

#7. Or an amicable pair," said Sam. "Sorry?" "In math, that's what we call two numbers each of which is equal to the sum of the divisors of the other. The smallest ones, 220 and 284, were regarded by the Pythagoreans as symbols of true friendship.

Reginald Hill

#8. To lie for me is something rare, some people think that I lie because they don't understand me quite well. But sometimes like today I just predict an answer a part of the answer in math the other can be found with more thinking.

Deyth Banger

#9. At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes and intelligence is pretty clear. However, scientists have not found a gene for A-level math ability or a gene for having a "natural ear for languages.

Hunter Maats

#10. 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.

Chris Gethard

#11. Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Paul Halmos

#12. Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.

Jen Hatmaker

#13. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Terence Tao

#14. A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard P. Feynman

#15. Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

Edward Frenkel

#16. Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

Conrad Wolfram

#17. Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key
and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you.

Charles Duhigg

#19. Saying no", argues the author Kevin Ashton, "has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

Kevin Ashton

#20. What makes you think they're spying on you?" "Voco. An aut where a fraa or suur is called out from the math - Evoked - and goes to do something praxic for the Panjandrums. We never see them again.

Neal Stephenson

#21. Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

#22. Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Raymond Smullyan

#23. This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim.

Barbara Oakley

#24. The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

Klaus Kleinfeld

#25. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying

Santosh Kalwar

#26. The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.

Rudy Rucker

#27. Competence is the most effective tool to hide madness. Black holes actually appear to be the brightest stars in sky. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#28. It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

John Wesley Young

#29. Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.

Edward Frenkel

#30. Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#31. It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

William Raspberry

#32. "Read Euler: he is our master in everything."

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#33. Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

#34. Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Proclus

#35. I don't know if you should be this happy. I'm not sure how much math they taught you at that place you came from, but although two is twice as much as one, in our equation, two still equals fucked.

Donna Augustine

#36. Done any exciting sums lately?"
"I don't just do sums," Miles told her. "There's much more to my life than that."
"Is there?" Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.
"Yes," said Miles. "Sometimes I draw graphs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#37. 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

#38. Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.

Nicholas Kristof

#39. Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality.

James Key

#40. Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Novalis

#41. I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

John Green

#42. I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Jennifer Ouellette

#43. For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Richard Courant

#44. Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Danica McKellar

#45. A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

Anna Nalick

#46. Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

#47. The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.

Neal Stephenson

#48. When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

Paul Ryan

#49. It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Hans Reichenbach

#50. My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

Danica McKellar

#51. I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Major Owens

#52. 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

#53. The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

#54. One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

Philip J. Davis

#55. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

#56. Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

Eve Ensler

#57. Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Lisa Unger

#58. Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Charlotte Moss

#59. Best thing about mathematics is that it teach us to love the problem.

Vitthal Jadhav

#60. I am the rain, when I'm on math I make the day horrible that's why the day is horrible, that's why I don't go outside.

Deyth Banger

#61. 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.

Alfred North Whitehead

#62. Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#63. We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Dan Meyer

#64. There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

Robert Turnbull

#65. A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

Paul Halmos

#66. Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global ...

Rene Thom

#67. This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs.

Lydia Netzer

#68. If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John Von Neumann

#69. The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#70. What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Bill Gates

#71. I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

Jennifer Garner

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

Daniel Pinkwater

#73. Math is "maths," an elevator is a "lift," a truck is a "lorry," a flashlight is a "torch," and "crisps" are what they call potato chips, while "chips" over here means French fries. Just as riding the double-decker buses thrills me, I get a thrill out of hearing people talk.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#74. Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#75. The commercial break before Final Jeopardy is usually the only time that the show stops tape. You're given as long as you want to do the math required to make your wager.

Ken Jennings

#76. Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Rachel Maddow

#77. There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

Wynton Marsalis

#78. Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Macaulay Culkin

#79. Math is easy; design is hard.

Jeffrey Veen

#80. Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Euripides

#81. Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Danica McKellar

#82. See, it's just a matter of looking at the lines and doing the math." "Ugh, more math. I do enough of that as it is." He laughed. "But this is fun math." "Fun math is an oxymoron." Kile

Kiera Cass

#83. Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

George Polya

#84. I have no idea what time it is in London, and have had too much wine to bother with the math to figure it out.

J. Kenner

#85. It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.

Natasha Tsakos

#86. My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Stephenie Meyer

#87. [Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

William Wordsworth

#88. My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

Danica McKellar

#89. I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

Warren Spector

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

Hendrik Lenstra

#91. There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Nikolai Lobachevsky

#92. I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

Randall Munroe

#93. I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained.

Annie F. Downs

#94. Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.

James Harris Simons

#95. Congress is the third branch of government ... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

Wesley Pruden

#96. The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.

Robert Turnbull

#97. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G.H. Hardy

#98. Nothing is something after all. There's math that proves this, of course, but also observations. I know it seems like math and observations are opposites.

Emily Fridlund

#99. I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That's not always true in life.

Emery Lord

#100. I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Danica McKellar