Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill McKibben

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Bill Gates

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Bill Gates

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Bill Gates

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Charlie Simpson

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

Charlie Sheen

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

Charley Reese

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Charles Lindbergh

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Chad Kroeger

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table,

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.

Billy Preston

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I like everything about school, but mostly math - I like that best,

I'm not going to be able to go to Florida. They needed me to pass that math test to be a Gator, and I wasn't able to make it.

Arthur Cayley

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Dr. Seuss

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

Isaac Newton

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Isaac Newton

I feign no hypotheses.

Isaac Newton

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

You can teach someone to use Excel, but if they don't know a thing about math in the first place, then it's not a very useful tool,

Karl Marx

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

Jules Verne

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.