Math Quotes · Page 13

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

— Carl Sandburg

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

— Danica McKellar

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

— Ashoke Sen

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

— Louise Rennison

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

— Judah Friedlander

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

— Richard Dawkins

“Ratios matter in Data Science. Dreams should be big and worries small.”

— Damian Mingle

Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we…

— Blaise Pascal

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

— Dat Phan

I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely…

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

“ Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu. Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a…

— Henri Lebesgue

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me.…

— Meryl Streep

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of…

— Anne Shirley

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a…

— George Polya

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

— Eric Temple Bell

The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the…

— Doug Stanhope

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually…

— Howard Whitley Eves

“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to…

— Seymour Papert

A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they…

— Anya Kamenetz

I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,…

— Stephen Furst

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot…

— Lord Kelvin

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible…

— Danica McKellar

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

— Pythagoras

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

— Honore de Balzac

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

— Ian Williams

Why is math a hard subject, please explain...xxx-------.

— Brandon McCaw

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

— Blaise Pascal

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English.

— John Daly

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

— Roman Abramovich

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

— Rachel Hartman

I didnt fail math. I just found a lot of ways not to do it

— Bubbly

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

— Sydney Sweeney

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

— Anonymous

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr

There are a lot of jobs in the financial industry that do need a math major.

— Adena Friedman