Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Gardner

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

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.

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.

Pierre de Fermat

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Justin Guarini

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

John Deacon

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Leo Tolstoy

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Pythagoras

Numbers rule the universe.

Pythagoras

Number was the substance of all things.

Pythagoras

Number rules the universe.

Pythagoras

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

Pythagoras

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Kelly Ripa

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

Lewis Black

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

Lewis Carroll

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Karl Rove

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Karl Popper

We never know what we are talking about.

Paul Dirac

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

Paul Dirac

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Paolo Bacigalupi

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Joe Bastianich

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

John Green

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

Jonah Peretti

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Jon Stewart

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Lucas Grabeel

Math is the language of the universe.

Lucas Grabeel

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Louise Rennison

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.