Math Quotes
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
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I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
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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.
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Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
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I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
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I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.
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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.
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Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.
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People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
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Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
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At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
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How do we fill the need for technology workers, people who have computer skills and math and science skills? How do we get a more diverse science workforce? These are all issues - I would look at these documents that were from the '50s and '60s and '70s, and you'd swear they were written two weeks ago because the issues are the same.
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A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
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I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
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I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.
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Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
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Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.
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It is this breathtaking image of success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
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The fact that these highly abstract notions coalesce in such refined harmony is absolutely mind-boggling. It points to something rich and mysterious lurking beneath the surface, as if the curtain had been lifted and we caught glimpses of the reality that had been carefully hidden from us. These are the wonders of modern math, and of the modern world.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.
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I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
