Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

Benjamin Franklin

There remain a few people in NASA who are there to accomplish great things; but most of NASA now consists of the people who accomplished the extraordinary feat of making mankind's greatest achievements look dull, then making it impossible to repeat them.Yet what man has done man can aspire to. About light I am in the dark.

Benjamin Franklin

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Arthur Conan Doyle

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Anton Chekhov

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

Brenda Song

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Brendan Fehr

I like Math because there's only one right answer.

Brad Pitt

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Jamie Dimon

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Blaise Pascal

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Blaise Pascal

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Demetri Martin

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

Asghar Farhadi

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Asghar Farhadi

I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Arthur Cayley

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Archimedes

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

Ben Quayle

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Auguste Comte

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Augusten Burroughs

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

Augusten Burroughs

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Aristotle

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Deepak Chopra

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Dave Ramsey

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

Brian Greene

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Mark Cuban

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

Albert Einstein

A mathematical equation stands forever

Alexander Grothendieck

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

Alexander Grothendieck

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?