Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Bastianich

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

John Deacon

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Leo Tolstoy

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Lady Gaga

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Lewis Black

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Lewis Carroll

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Karl Rove

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Karl Popper

We never know what we are talking about.

Philip Emeagwali

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Pythagoras

Numbers rule the universe.

Pythagoras

Number was the substance of all things.

Pythagoras

Number rules the universe.

Pythagoras

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

Pythagoras

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Haruki Murakami

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

John Maynard Smith

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

John Locke

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

John L. Phillips

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John Banville

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

Jodi Rell

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

Justin Guarini

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

Paul Dirac

The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

Paul Dirac

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Paul Dirac

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Martin Luther

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Nick Carter

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Paul Erdos

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.