Math Quotes · Page 18

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

— Alex Sharp

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports.

— Kim Brooks

Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.

— Clifford Truesdell

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

— George E. Brown, Jr

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

— Norbert Wiener

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

— Eric Thomas

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

— Charles M. Schulz

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

— John von Neumann

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Math May Not Teach Us How To Add Love Or Minus Hate, But It Gives Us Every Reason To Hope That Every…

— Pacifiersucker

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful…

— Shane Carruth

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very…

— James Rothman

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…

— Paul Halmos

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

— Bill McKibben

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of…

— Dan Meyer

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education…

— John Glenn

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics…

— Gloria Steinem

Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and…

— James R Newman

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or…

— Michael Moritz

It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our…

— Phil Plait

Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston…

— Gustave Flaubert

One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of…

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

— Terence Tao

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

— George Polya

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

— Niall Ferguson

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

— Gavin Newsom

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

— Simone Weil

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

— Gary Player

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

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

— Paul Erdos

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

— Wallace B. Smith

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

— Meg Cabot

“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”

— Jordan Ellenberg

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

— Mike Birbiglia