Quotes About Math

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.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

A young reporter for the Post named Tom Wolfe followed up after my talk with an interview. The Post ran his story, "You Can So Beat the Gambling House at Blackjack, Math Expert Insists." He was curious rather than skeptical, sympathetic but probing. Wolfe later became one of America's most famous authors.

The thing with the Rolexes is amazing, amazing, Ivan wrote. Light, he said, seemed to sweep, but quantum theory said it ticked. Waves were the combination of sweeping and ticking. Could true sweeping ever happen on this Earth of ours? Maybe one could do sweeping math, og sweeping sex. Sweeping was beautiful, but powerless. Energy came from ticking - the capacity for rapid change. Immortality was sweeping. Lives coming and going, generations, years, minutes, seconds: all are on the fake Rolex.

I loved school, although I got bored very easily. I liked literature. I loved philosophy. I didn't like math. I was good at English. I didn't like German. I was good at sports and continued to compete on all sorts of teams.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

Algebraic to the limit!

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

That was the most maddening and annoying aspect of old age. If you could add two and two people clapped for you! They clapped. It was true. It was pathetic.

It was way cool, being the one who did the math.

Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal.

How old are you?" – Nick "That many zeros and you just get tired of counting." – Caleb

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.