Math Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.”
– Sally Ride

“When I was growing up, I always knew I’d be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.”
– Sergey Brin

“You know the best thing about competition? There’s this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you’re so happy.”
– Shaun White

“…from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. (Principia Mathematica)”
– Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”
– Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

“If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.”
– Snoop Dogg

“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
– Stendhal

“Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.”
– Stephen Sondheim

“The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.”
– Stephen Wolfram

“Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it’s as old as math itself. The word “calculate” reflects that legacy — it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don’t have to be Einstein (German for “one stone”), but it might help to have rocks in your head.”
– Steven H. Strogatz

“American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France.”
– Suzanne Fields

“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”
– Sydney Smith

“I’m a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There’s others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there’s another type that’s not a visual thinker at all, and they’re the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”
– Temple Grandin

“I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.”
– Terri Windling

“Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.”
– Thad Cochran

“And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can’t do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.”
– Thomas Wilson

“Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address – just one – this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.”
– Vinton Cerf

“He doesn’t seem to mind at all that he’s stupid about math.”
– Wendy Lichtman

“Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They’ll be working until they’re 100. It’s incredible.”
– Willard Scott

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal”
– William James

“And they’re also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.”
– William Joyce

“The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called ‘Billy’s Booger.’ It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.”
– William Joyce

“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn’t pass a test to save my life! I’m surprised that it didn’t take me until I was 20 to graduate. That’s why my role is so cool – Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”
– William Petersen

“I was particularly good at math and science.”
– William Standish Knowles

“At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.”
– William Standish Knowles

“Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.”
– William Standish Knowles

“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
– William Thomson

“I had a feeling once about Mathematics – that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me – the Byss and Abyss. I saw – as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor’s Show – a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.”
– Winston S. Churchill

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