Casts Quote by Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

— Rodney Brooks

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

— Ambrose Bierce

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

— Dirk Jan Struik

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight…

— Nick Carter

“LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.”

— Roy H. Williams

Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

— Prue Leith

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

— Hubert de Givenchy

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

Fortune favors those born into money.

— Jimi Homeless