Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

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.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Richard Bach

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Todd Berrier

With 43 teams here, you do the math.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Daniel Bernoulli

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Anish Kapoor

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.