Math Quotes · Page 36

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I…

— Jamie Hyneman

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid…

— Steven Weber

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and…

— Nicholas Stern

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn…

— George Lucas

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

— Max Dehn

In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of…

— Roger Bacon

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were…

— Heidi Hammel

Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread…

— Kevin Ashton

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time…

— Hugo Rossi

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which…

— Michio Kaku

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was…

— Mickey Hart

I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now…

— Kato

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come…

— Blaise Pascal

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid.…

— Gosta Mittag-Leffler

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better…

— C. West Churchman

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

— David Plouffe

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never…

— Louise Fitzhugh

We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language…

— Heidi Hammel

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and…

— Chris Pine

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

— Shelley Berman

“A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results…

— Keigo Higashino

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one…

— Blaise Pascal

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to…

— Roger Ascham

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

“Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances? Professor Jones:…

— David Morgan-Mar

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

— Marston Morse

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the…

— Albert Einstein

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift…

— Roman Payne

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and…

— Danica McKellar

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

— Samuil Shatunovsky

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least…

— Chris Baio

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and…

— Richard Engel