Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristoffer Polaha

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

Jules Verne

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Paul Erdos

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Paul Erdos

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

Mark Haddon

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Paul Ryan

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Klaus Kleinfeld

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.

Mark Twain

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Martin Gardner

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Nicholas Stern

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Nicholas Eberstadt

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Nathan Kress

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 Lane

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Nathan Myhrvold

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Mitt Romney

I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

Patrick Rothfuss

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.

Patrick Rothfuss

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

Leopold Kronecker

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

P. J. O'Rourke

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

Kazuo Ishiguro

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Asghar Farhadi

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Asghar Farhadi

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Pierre de Fermat

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Peter Lynch

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Terri Windling

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

Randall Munroe

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

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.