Quotes About Math

#1. Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Lauren Stamile

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

Monique Coleman

#3. I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

Nathan Fielder

#4. I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.

Mike Huckabee

#5. Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

Dan Meyer

#6. 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

#7. We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Mark Kennedy

#8. I never did very well in math-I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

#9. Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.

Anousheh Ansari

#11. I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I
understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was
wrong. I should have done it.

Jamie Hyneman

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

Jeff Greenfield

#13. Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Amory Lovins

#14. Math?" "Yeah, math. Aren't all you Asians really good at math?

Rick Yancey

#15. I never have heard somebody talking about games which are educationable or with logic like chess for example. Nobody watch it from the people which watch football and are good at math. Why they don't do it??

Deyth Banger

#16. I could have gone to medical school, I said. Except for all the math and stuff.

MaryJanice Davidson

#17. Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you

Ed Stetzer

#18. I am better at math than spelling.

Spike Jonze

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

Dan Meyer

#20. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#21. Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

Charles M. Schulz

#23. Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Calvin Trillin

#24. Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

Brian Acton

#25. I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

Rita Rudner

#26. Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

Jamie Ford

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

Jamie Dimon

#28. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.

You are deciding your life right now.

Meg Ray

#29. This concept is central to understanding what distinguishes the Arrowsmith approach: cognitive exercises do not teach content or skill in, say, mathematics; the aim is to forge new neural pathways in the brain so that later, when math is taught, number concepts actually make sense.

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

#30. My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Eric Allin Cornell

#31. My math is never sharper as when I meet an old girlfriend with a kid.

Kelsey Grammer

#32. I don't want to be seen as this math-rock geek.

Marnie Stern

#33. Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

William Thurston

#34. I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.

Innasafa

#35. Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could

Anthony Doerr

#36. One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.

Bindi Irwin

#37. My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.

Christie Laing

#38. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

Bill Nye

#39. How in the world did I ever find you?"
Mackenzie Winters
"Math class."
Brandon Knight

Bella Jeanisse

#40. I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Nathan Kress

#41. The math is stark: cut the

Christopher McDougall

#42. In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

Brian Greene

#43. My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

James Arthur

#44. The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

Peter Watts

#45. grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book.

Helen Simonson

#46. There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

Padmasree Warrior

#47. One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

Conrad Wolfram

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

Conan O'Brien

#49. In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.

Laura Owens

#50. Four out of three people are bad at math.

Darynda Jones

#51. I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.

Andrea Gibson

#52. It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Danica McKellar

#53. i hate math, but i love counting money

Anonymous

#54. 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.

Anya Kamenetz

#55. 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.

Chris Stein

#56. Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math.

Greg Pincus

#57. Mom has never allowed video games in the house, except for the educational kind, like Math Blaster, and that wasn't so much to teach us that video games sucked.

Jesse Andrews

#58. I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

Meryl Streep

#59. Just a girl in my math class"
"Just a girl, huh?"
Gabriel glared at him. "Just a girl."
Chris smiled. "So was Becca.

Brigid Kemmerer

#60. My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable.

Penny Reid

#61. The most recent edition of the test - called the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - was conducted in 2012, and it found that among the OECD's thirty-four members, the United States ranked twenty-seventh, twentieth, and seventeenth in math, science, and reading, respectively.

Fareed Zakaria

#62. I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Robert Sternberg

#63. There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

Chen-Ning Yang

#64. 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

#65. When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

Danica McKellar

#66. I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Bo Burnham

#67. I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#68. I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

Glen Taylor

#69. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Jack Dorsey

#70. No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

Richard Kadrey

#71. Fun math is an oxymoron.

Kiera Cass

#72. If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Deepak Chopra

#73. Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.

Jim Butcher

#74. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

Kurt Vonnegut

#75. Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.

Renee James

#76. The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

Anna D. Shapiro

#77. If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

Gregory Meeks

#78. I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Christie Hefner

#79. Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Edward Witten

#80. 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

#81. 6 people + 6 months + 3 cameramen + 1 reality show = infinite drama. I've done the math. - Rose

Krista Ritchie

#82. Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy - this boy! - knows nothin' abou' - about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

J.K. Rowling

#83. The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.

Seymour Papert

#84. Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Stephen Sondheim

#85. The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

Liane Moriarty

#86. Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

Flea

#87. 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.

Deb Caletti

#88. 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

#89. But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#90. The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

Mario J. Molina

#91. I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Madison Davenport

#92. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.

Sam Newman

#93. Math is a hard subject.... - no silence from you and skipping this and going to the next quote, didn't you done this?

Deyth Banger

#94. I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

Girl Talk

#95. I never thought that I will be famous in math with this that with wrong solving the problems in math I get the right answer. But it looks I'm now Famous!

Deyth Banger

#96. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

Donald Miller

#97. Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very different about how math was taught in Korea. Something that not even Minnesota had figured out.

Amanda Ripley

#98. Lottery was just a tax on people who weren't good at math.

Cindi Madsen

#99. Math people are math people. When you approach them with investments and business, they don't just ask the soft questions but eventually get to the hard questions.

Paul Wachter

#100. Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

William Standish Knowles