Barriers Quote by Isaac Asimov

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

— Albert Einstein

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

— Karl Marx

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going…

— Andy Rooney

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

— David Hilbert

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

— Matt Haig

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between…

— Daniel Tammet

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I…

— Eileen Pollack

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

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

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

— Alastair Reynolds