Five Quote by Steven Wright

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

— Calvin Trillin

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

— Paul Stanley

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

— Tom Lehrer

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

— Charles Darwin

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg