Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Erdos

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

Mark Haddon

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Paul Ryan

I don't have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.

Rachel Maddow

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Niall Ferguson

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

John Green

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Martin Gardner

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Nicholas Stern

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Macaulay Culkin

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Nicholas Eberstadt

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Nathan Kress

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Nathan Myhrvold

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Mitt Romney

I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

Margaret Atwood

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Mark Twain

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Patrick Rothfuss

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.

Patrick Rothfuss

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

Leopold Kronecker

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

P. J. O'Rourke

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Snoop Dogg

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

Norman Cousins

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Norbert Wiener

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Norbert Wiener

Am I really a good mathematician?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

John von Neumann

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.