Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Graham

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Ronald Graham

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

Stephen Colbert

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

Stephen Wolfram

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Tom Lehrer

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Steve Wozniak

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Sigrid Agren

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

Norman Cousins

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Maya Lin

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Meg Cabot

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

Max Black

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

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Lisa Randall

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Lisa Kleypas

Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.

John Stuart Mill

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Martin Luther

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Nick Carter

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

Marissa Mayer

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Nora Roberts

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

Morris Kline

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

John Polkinghorne

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Michio Kaku

Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe will be reduced down to a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long. But leaves the final question, where did that one inch equation come from?

Michio Kaku

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

Macaulay Culkin

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Jeffrey Rosen

The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

Jacqueline Carey

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Evan Esar

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

Ezra Taft Benson

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times. Just as a musician has a love of music which drives him to become outstanding in that field, so we must inculcate in some of our qualified young people such an interest in science that they will turn to it of themselves.

Francis Crick

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.