Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Seuss

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

Danica McKellar

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Danica McKellar

I just love math and most people don't.

Danica McKellar

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

Danica McKellar

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Danica McKellar

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

Danica McKellar

Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

Danica McKellar

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

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.

Colum McCann

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

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.

David Blaine

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

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.