Math Quotes - Page 33

• At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.

  Gemma Chan

  Smart, Chemistry, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Genius, World, Normal

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

  Matteo Manassero

  Football, Hate, School

  "Matteo Manassero confident he can live up to his reputation at US Open". Interview with Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Screenwriting, Solve, Equations

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• The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

  Jonah Peretti

  Ideas, Creative, Understanding

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• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  Elayne Boosler

  Sex, Believe, School

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• I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

  Rita Rudner

  School, Vegas, Worry

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• Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

  Gloria Steinem

  Anxiety, Use, May

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.355, Open Road Media

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• Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

  Meg Greenfield

  Running, Liars, Mean

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Two, Long, Racism

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Oxford, Self, Parent

  "Hi, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and--most recently--David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. Ask me anything!". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

  Jeff Dunham

  Art, Communication, Degrees

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Sex, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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• The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Lying, School, Kids

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• I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

  Sigrid Agren

  Physics, Biology

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• For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Technology, Engineering, People

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Views, Engineering, Class

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, Kids, Numbers

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

  Julian Coolidge

  Men, Fool, Doe

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• Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Real, World, Can Do

  "I'm not very fast at my times tables". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, School

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

  Brenda Song

  Asian, Jokes

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• I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

  Sam Trammell

  League, Way, Good Enough

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• Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

  Judah Friedlander

  Reading, Perfect, Weakness

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