Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Brydon

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Richard P. Feynman

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

William J. Clinton

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Virgil

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Sally Ride

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Rudolph A. Marcus

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

Voltaire

There are no sects in geometry.

Pythagoras

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Plato

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.