Math Quotes

992 quotes by 704 authors

Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert
A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking… — Steven Landsburg
There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or… — Harvey Pekar
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. — Rudolph A. Marcus
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it. — Elizabeth Moon
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for… — Nancy Spero
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing… — Scarlett Thomas
I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that… — Major Owens
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to… — William Braxton Irvine
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. — Ronald Graham
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having… — Chris Stein
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long… — Jacque Fresco
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the… — Laura Lippman
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what… — Cory Doctorow
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and… — Robert McKee

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