I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and…

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

— Rita Rudner

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton

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

— Justin Guarini

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the…

— Emily Deschanel

“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the…

— Jean-Baptiste Biot

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they…

— Joe Bastianich

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

— Sophie Kinsella

Math is easy; design is hard.

— Jeffrey Veen

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're…

— Zach Woods

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama,…

— Adam Richman

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

— Mary Everest Boole