Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buzz Aldrin

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

Bruno Mars

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

James Dyson

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Jason Earles

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Eva Herzigova

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Jay Leno

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Kristoffer Polaha

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

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.

Joseph Joubert

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Klaus Kleinfeld

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Georg Cantor

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Honore de Balzac

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Ian Hacking

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Evan Esar

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

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.

John Green

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

Jonah Peretti

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Jon Stewart

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

Paolo Bacigalupi

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Paul McCartney

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Pierre de Fermat

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Peter Lynch

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.