Quotes About Math

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

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

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The U.S. ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. We are woefully behind. The only way to change this situation is through public-private partnerships.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

1337% of Pi ? 42

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

The mathematical challenge of finding the greatest good can expand the heart. Empathy opens the mind to suffering, and math keeps it open.

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Multiply all ingredients by four to get too many cupcakes.

There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

Wilson looked at them both. If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?