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.

Willard Scott

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.

Saint Augustine

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Baxter

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Tricia Helfer

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Margaret Atwood

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Plotinus

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Lewis Thomas

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Pythagoras

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

Pythagoras

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.