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The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.
My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.
When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.
I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.
There is too much acceptance of people saying, 'I am a math person, or I am an artsy person.' It makes me cringe.
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn't math.
It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.
Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.
I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.
I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be it.
I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.