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I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.
We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.
Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.
My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!
When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.
Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.