Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Buzz Aldrin

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Buzz Aldrin

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

Bruno Mars

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

James Dyson

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Jason Earles

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Christine Pelosi

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

Christina Hendricks

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Chris Stein

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Chris Rock

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Havelock Ellis

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Gordon Brown

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

Jennifer Carpenter

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Howard Gardner

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

Honore de Balzac

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Gregory Maguire

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Izaak Walton

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Isaac Barrow

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Immanuel Kant

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Ian Hacking

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Gloria Steinem

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

Georg Cantor

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

Georg Cantor

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Brian Greene

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

A. N. Wilson

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Robert Scoble

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Adam Smith

I have no faith in political arithmetic.