Math Quotes · Page 28

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I…

— Sam Trammell

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use…

— Madison Davenport

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if…

— Blaise Pascal

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that…

— Anonymous

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

— Erwin Schrodinger

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will…

— Thales

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated…

— Georg Cantor

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a…

— Robert H. Frank

The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the…

— Peter L. Bernstein

Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts…

— Ian Stewart

The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through…

— Lancelot Hogben

“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in…

— C.P. Snow

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

— Lewis Black

I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.

— Terry J. Lundgren

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

— John C. Baez

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

— Michio Kaku

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers…

— Justin Guarini

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so…

— Jack Handey

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school,…

— Lisa Randall

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,…

— John Edensor Littlewood

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized…

— Kurt Gödel

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,…

— Voltaire

In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

— Mae Jemison

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and…

— Paul Ryan

I'm not terribly athletic. And... there's a lot of things I'm not good at. And if it makes anybody feel better, I…

— Lester Holt

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a…

— Marie Curie

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business.…

— Michael Silverblatt

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

— J. W. N. Sullivan

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

— Martin Ryle

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you…

— Paul Halmos

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

— M. C. Escher

*During math test* My answer: 28. Answer choices: 17, 19, 26, 45. Me: well 26 is closer to 28, so that must be the answer.

— Mackenzie