Math Quotes · Page 15

If math was your solver, I may be your questioner

— Anonymous

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

— Rachel Marsden

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

— Morgan Freeman

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Asghar Farhadi

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

— Daniel Nathans

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

— Imre Lakatos

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this…

— Teresa Mummert

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

— Mark Twain

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race…

— Eric Temple Bell

“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not…

— K. Martin Beckner

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very…

— Bill Gates

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the…

— Pafnuty Chebyshev

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call…

— Richard P. Feynman

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky…

— Sandra Lerner

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly…

— Mary Everest Boole

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child…

— Laura Lippman

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he…

— Robert Kanigel

“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt…

— William Elwood Byerly

I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.…

— Sterling Beaumon

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,…

— Wallace Carothers

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how…

— Marnie Stern

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math…

— Danica McKellar

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect.

— Judah Friedlander

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

— Niels Henrik Abel

“Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.”

— Suzette Vearnon

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

— Plato

That one feeling you get when you understand something in Math.

— Anonymous

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.

— MC Frontalot

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

— Charles H. Townes

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

— Audrey MacLean

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

— Jamie Dimon

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

— Norman Cousins

A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

— Laozi

“Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.”

— R.M. ArceJaeger

I hate when I am taking a math test and my answer is nowhere near the multiple choices.

— Anonymous