Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Guarini

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

John Deacon

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Lucas Grabeel

Math is the language of the universe.

Lucas Grabeel

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Louise Rennison

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

Lord Byron

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

M. C. Escher

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Paul Dirac

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

Paul Dirac

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Paul Dirac

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Haruki Murakami

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

You can't provide everything to everyone. The math doesn't work.

Matt Taibbi

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

Meg Cabot

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Jonah Peretti

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Jon Stewart

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Paolo Bacigalupi

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Paul McCartney

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Pierre de Fermat

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Peter Lynch

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Rene Descartes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Rene Descartes

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

Rene Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.