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.

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.

William Powell

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Joyce

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Scottie Pippen

He's a very talented player. He's got the size and the skills. There's no reason he can't do even better than what I did.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

William Whewell

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

Wallace Stegner

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Russell Hoban

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

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.