Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Bo Burnham

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Edward Gibbon

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

David Hilbert

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

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.

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.

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.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Elizabeth Moon

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

Alan Shepard

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

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.