Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dakota Blue Richards

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

With 43 teams here, you do the math.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

Amanda Palmer

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

AnnaLynne McCord

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

Daniel Pinkwater

Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.

Daniel Bernoulli

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Cory Doctorow

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

David Foster Wallace

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

David Cronenberg

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Plouffe

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

David Chalmers

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Confucius

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Daniel Tammet

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

Daniel Tammet

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

Daniel Tammet

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

Andy Rooney

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

Andrew Wiles

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Anthony Doerr

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Andre Weil

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Ambrose Bierce

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Anish Kapoor

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

Ally Carter

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

Ann Druyan

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

A. A. Milne

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I have created a new universe from nothing.