Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Buffett

I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That'sreally the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

Sally Ride

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Rudolph A. Marcus

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudy Rucker

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

Rudolf Steiner

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

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.

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.

Sam Trammell

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

Robertson Davies

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rick Bayan

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