Math Quotes - Page 32

• So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

  Megyn Kelly

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

  Shelly Crane

  Neighbor, Fine, Term

  Shelly Crane (2012). “Consume: The Devoured Series”, p.18, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

  Henry Clay

  Funny, Humorous, Teaching

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• Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Art, Strong, Educational

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• The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

  Gary Player

  Education, Practice, Seems

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• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Work, Ideas, Views

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• Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

  Pythagoras

  Geometry

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• ... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

  Saunders Mac Lane

  Hands, Ideas, Transformation

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• You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Helping, Burden

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• I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

  Chris Baio

  Teacher, Jobs, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Doe, World, Prove

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• 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.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Writing, College, Class

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• In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Thinking, Waiting

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• When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

  Sandra Lerner

  School, Blue, Sky

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• Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

  Susan Hockfield

  Engineering, Giving, Doers

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• I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

  Girl Talk

  Fall, Engineering, Editors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

  Willow Smith

  Father, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Way, Philosopher

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• A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Team, Care, Taught

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• Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

  Bill Gates

  Meaningful, Reading, Perfect

  "Bill Gates Seeks Formula for Better Teachers". Interview with Stephanie Banchero, www.wsj.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fire, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.

  Hermann Weyl

  Imagination, Effort, Community

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Numbers, Years

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