Math Quotes - Page 26

• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• This is not class warfare. It’s math.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Warfare, Class Warfare

  Barack Obama's Speech on Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 19, 2011.

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• No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

  Tommy Lee

  Real, People, Looks

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• You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

  Pete Docter

  Book, Kids, Class

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• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  Nathan Kress

  My Favorite, Grades, Algebra

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• Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

  Jason Earles

  Favorite Subject, My Favorite, Theater

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2009.

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• The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

  Beth Broderick

  Jobs, Stars, Book

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• If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

  Mark Gonzales

  Married, Being Married, Ifs

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• I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

  Chris Vance

  School, Years, People

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• Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

  William J. Bernstein

  Whatever Happens, Catastrophe, Courses

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• . . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, World, Natural

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• These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

  Rene Descartes

  Fall, Mean, Simple

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

  Auguste Comte

  Science

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Class

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• There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Views, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (1929). “The Aims of Education & Other Essays”

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Jobs, Adventure, Games

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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• Fourier is a mathematical poem.

  Lord Kelvin

  Poetry, Fourier, Mathematics

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• War can protect; it cannot create.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  War, Protect, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

  Philip J. Davis

  War, World, May

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.104, Springer Science & Business Media

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• If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

  Rene Descartes

  War, Battle, Sides

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• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Mad, Understanding

  Thomas Hobbes (1845). ““The” English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.445

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• At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Understanding, Firsts

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• But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

  Antonin Artaud

  Understanding, Scientist, Quantum

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

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• For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.

  Michael Frayn

  World, Pages, Argument

  Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber

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