Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Helen Keller

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

George Eliot

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

Kelly Smith

It was good, really good. The math tutoring will help.

Paul Tracy

It's simple math - we have to win and Sebastien has to have some trouble, ... It didn't go like that today but we have to keep on pushing.

Jason Earles

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Eva Herzigova

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

Kristoffer Polaha

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Jay Leno

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Buzz Aldrin

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

Buzz Aldrin

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

Bruno Mars

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

James Dyson

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Klaus Kleinfeld

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

Gregory Maguire

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Gloria Steinem

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Georg Cantor

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Ian Hacking

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Honore de Balzac

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Izaak Walton

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Isaac Barrow

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Isaac Asimov

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

Immanuel Kant

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Ellen Goodman

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

Epicurus

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Hermann Weyl

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.