Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johannes Kepler

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

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

Norman Ralph Augustine

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.

Philip Emeagwali

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Pierre de Fermat

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

Rosie O'Donnell

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

Roger Bacon

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

Roger Bacon

In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.

Roger Bacon

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Thomas Mann

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Ronald Graham

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Ronald Graham

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

Roman Abramovich

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.

Roman Abramovich

We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...

Roman Abramovich

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

Roman Abramovich

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

Stephen Sondheim

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Tony Robbins

I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

Terri Windling

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

Simone Elkeles

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

Simon McBurney

People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Rick Bayan

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Pythagoras

Numbers rule the universe.

Pythagoras

Number was the substance of all things.

Pythagoras

Number rules the universe.

Pythagoras

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

Pythagoras

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Kelly Ripa

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.