Quotes About Math

I am afraid of some math, science, and engineering problems, but I know I can at least read the chapters through and perhaps the fear will go away at some point in the future as I attempt the work and ask the experts.

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Life is a math equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert the negatives into positives.

In math two negatives multiplied together make a positive, in life two wrongs don't make it right!

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

People fear what they don't understand: Change, Death, 4th grade math word problems. . .

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

That awkward moment when you finish a math problem and your answer isn't even one of the choices.

TEACHER: If you had five apples on your desk & the Boy next to you took three, what would you have?...STUDENT: A Fight.

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

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

According to the United States Department of Education (DOE), the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)11 reports that only 26 percent of the nation's twelfth graders are proficient in math and only 38 percent are proficient in reading. There is also a twenty-nine percentage point gap between the reading proficiency of white and black twelfth-grade students. And these numbers are unchanged since 2009.12

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.""What an accomplishment. No one has ever done that before.

You can't hide secrets from the future with math.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Relationships were meant only for two people; unfortunately for some of us, math is not our favorite subject.

alpha, beta, gamma, delta

Anything could happen in a cosmos that was part math and part magic.

Two plus two equals car accident.