Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Margaret Atwood

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

Macaulay Culkin

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Mark Twain

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Martin Gardner

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

Nicholas Stern

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

John Green

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Paul Erdos

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Paul Erdos

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

Mark Haddon

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Christine Pelosi

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

Christina Hendricks

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

Chris Stein

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

Chris Rock

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Havelock Ellis

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

G. H. Hardy

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

G. H. Hardy

Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

G. H. Hardy

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

John Polkinghorne

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Norman Cousins

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Norbert Wiener

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Norbert Wiener

Am I really a good mathematician?

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.

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.