Quotes About Math

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

Math is the language of the head, music is the language of the heart. Of the two, it is music that speaks the most truth.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

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I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

I never did very well in math-I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

It might surprise you to know that, for the most part, finance involves addition and subtraction. When finance people get really fancy, they multiply and divide. We never have to take the second derivative of a function or determine the area under a curve (sorry, engineers). So have no fear: the math is easy. And calculators are cheap. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to be financially intelligent.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

Oh, a math word problem. You're flirting with me, aren't you?

He had begun to suspect that while he had an obvious aptitude for math, he was not particularly inspired by it.

Barely on the verge of adolescence, I was still a shy girl who preferred math homework to boys. I was neither daring nor particularly unhappy, but booze flipped a switch in me I hadn't even known was there.

There is a button on most calculators that computes the square root for you. It is usually denoted by the symbol "?" and one would normally write things like 3 = ?9. As you can see, the square root is the opposite of squaring, 42 = 16 and ?16 = 4.

It's not that math can solve the world's problems. It's just that the world's problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences.