Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Sibel Edmonds

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Mike Price

Most of the (blocks) are legal. (But) it doesn't matter if they're legal or not. Fifteen yards isn't going to help Zach West's knee.

Jerry Mathers

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Albert Einstein

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

E. L. Konigsburg

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Alfred Bester

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

Andy Warhol

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

David Wallace

Here's an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.

Robert Coleman Richardson

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

Kina Grannis

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

Richard P. Feynman

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Jeff Bolling

He sits there and absorbs everything and does better than us on calculus tests.