Math Quotes · Page 30

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

— Ogyu Sorai

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the…

— Paul Lockhart

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

— Albert Einstein

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…

— Paul Halmos

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

— Sally Ride

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

— Bill Gates

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful…

— Robert Turnbull

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools.…

— Amity Shlaes

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and…

— Mark Kennedy

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and…

— Mary Somerville

You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you…

— Sallie Krawcheck

... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how…

— Marisha Pessl

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system,…

— Buzz Aldrin

You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask…

— Michio Kaku

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

— Seymour Papert

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively…

— Michelle Obama

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why…

— Rosie O'Donnell

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology,…

— Michelle Obama

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the…

— Frank Scoblete

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was…

— Thomas Hardy

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so…

— Keahu Kahuanui

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it…

— Blaise Pascal

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines:…

— Oleg Deripaska

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D.…

— Alastair Reynolds

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people…

— G. H. Hardy

I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given…

— Rozsa Peter

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

— P. J. O'Rourke

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

— H. L. Mencken

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

Sex is like math you add the bed subtract the cloths divide your legs and pray you wont multiply!!!!

— Anonymous

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The…

— Leo Tolstoy

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot…

— Rodney Mullen

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

— AnnaLynne McCord

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and…

— Ernst Mach

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

— Ivars Peterson