Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Randall Munroe

I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

Randall Munroe

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Vanna Bonta

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

Stephen Wolfram

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

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.

Rick Bayan

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

Raymond Smullyan

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Tom Hayden

It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

Tim Dorsey

A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.

Swami Vivekananda

If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

Tom Lehrer

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Steve Wozniak

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Hawking

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Stendhal

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling.

Sigrid Agren

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

Shaun White

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Steven Weber

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

Richard Hamming

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

T. Harv Eker

"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

Scott Adams

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

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.

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.

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.