Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

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.

Charlie Munger

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math....

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles M. Schulz

Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Bill McKibben

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

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.

Casey Affleck

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

Aldous Huxley

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

Albert Einstein

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

Albert Einstein

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

Albert Einstein

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

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?

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.

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.

Dr. Seuss

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Anthony Doerr

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