Math Quotes
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Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
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I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.
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Experimental Physicist Phys. I cannot imagine myself perceiving non-Euclidean space!Math. Look at the reflection of the room in a polished doorknob, and imagine yourself one of the actors in what you see going on there.
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My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
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Tris was pudgy and not especially good looking, but she had the personality of a beautiful girl because she'd been raised in a math.
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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
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The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
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I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
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I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
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I'm bad at math.
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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
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Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.
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I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.
