Answers Quote by Jack Handey

There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket,…

— Robert Eastaway

People who are looked up to in America will often say, 'I don't get math.' And they'll often say it like they're being humble,…

— Sal Khan

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

— Henri Poincare

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard…

— Danica McKellar

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior…

— Daniel Kahneman

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

— Calvin Trillin

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it,…

— Rachel Riley

In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give…

— Gregory Chaitin

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no…

— Freeman Dyson

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Math will totally make you look like a slut. Example: You're a 25 year old mother of a 9th grader.

— Nikhil Saluja