Math Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Bruno Mars
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. View quote
Lisa Randall
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. View quote
David Graeber
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet
I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, "You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, "The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity' as if it were a number. It's not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?' I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,' ‘truth,' ‘beauty'-those are not numbers.”. View quote
John Derbyshire
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. (Paolo Bacigalupi)
It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away."Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective. View quote
Phil Plait
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point. View quote
Patrick Warburton
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. View quote
Barack Obama
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. View quote
William Joyce
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. View quote
Mark Haddon
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting. View quote
Randall Munroe
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math. View quote
Rachel Hartman
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well. View quote
Robert Sternberg
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. (Robert McKee)
Yes, I was really good in physics and in math. View quote
Eva Herzigova
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' View quote
David Harsanyi
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. View quote
Vint Cerf
I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late. View quote
Jane Howard