Maths Quotes
68 quotes by 62 authors
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Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself,…
— Frank Ocean
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My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four…
— Marjane Satrapi
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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
— Daniel Tammet
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When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's…
— Daniel Tammet
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of…
— Peter Wright
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Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
— Louise Rennison
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I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I…
— Maureen Johnson
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It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
— Mark Haddon
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Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and…
— Seymour Papert
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I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the…
— Willow Smith
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Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
— Conrad Wolfram
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand…
— Conrad Wolfram
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Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
— Shakuntala Devi
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I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child…
— Shakuntala Devi
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I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for…
— Shakira
Who Wrote These Maths Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 68 Maths Quotes, led by these top contributors: