Math Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.”
– Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
– John Adams

“My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.”
– John Astin

“Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.”
– John Deacon

“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”
– John Glenn

“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.”
– John Green

“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 L. Phillips

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
– John von Neumann

“Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that’s what I’m going to do.”
– Jonny Lee Miller

“Algebra is, properly speaking, the Analysis of equations.”
– Joseph Alfred Serret (1819-1885)

“On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.”
– Josh Lucas

“5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does it take? At the racetrack, an accumulator is a bet which rolls on profits from the success of one of the horse to engross the stake on the next one.
– Julian Barnes

“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.”
– Justin Guarini

“Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents‘ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“In math, the backwards E, ?, means there exists. ? means part of a set. A line through that ? means excluded from. Everyone ?, but not everyone ?. We all feel that, unless we ?, we do not ?.”
– Katrina Vandenberg

“If you’re a waiter and you’re waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.”
– Kelly Ripa

“In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.”
– Kenny Marchant

“…a consistency proof for [any] system … can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system … itself.”
– Kurt Godel (1906-1978)

“Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease depending on recent occurrences of the event is called the gambler’s fallacy. For example, if Kerrich landed, say, 44 heads in the first 100 tosses, the coin would not develop a bias towards the tails in order to catch up! That’s what is at the root of such ideas as “her luck has run out” and “He is due.” That does not happen. For what it’s worth, a good streak doesn’t jinx you, and a bad one, unfortunately , does not mean better luck is in store.”
– Leonard Mlodinow

“I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.”
– Linda M. Godwin

“Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.”
– Louis Zukofsky

“I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.”
– Lucas Grabeel

“Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. “Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would–”
– Lynn Austin

“The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.”
– Maggie Gallagher

“I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.”
– Major Owens

“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.”
– Marissa Mayer

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
– Mark Haddon

“If you enjoy math and you write novels, it’s very rare that you’ll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.”
– Mark Haddon

“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.”
– Mark Kennedy

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