Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Jules Verne

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

Paul Ryan

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

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.

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.

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.