Math Quotes - Page 34

• I am better at math than spelling.

  Spike Jonze

  Spelling

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• Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

  Michio Kaku

  Flames, Advice, Curiosity

  "String Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It". Reddit AMA, www.businessinsider.in. March 10, 2014.

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• The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

  Steven Weber

  Imperfection, Austerity, Shifting

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

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• Only in math can you buy sixty cantaloupes and no one asks what the hell is wrong with you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hell, Asks, Sixty

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• I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

  Chris Gethard

  Father, Numbers, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

  Hulk Hogan

  Dad, Real, Numbers

  "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.

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• Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Giving Up, Kids

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Two, Understanding

  "Three Hours With Warren Buffett - Live From Omaha". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. August 22, 2008.

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• I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

  Jerry McNerney

  Formulas, Discovering, Enjoyed

  "Rookie in Congress touts science / Bay Area lawmaker stakes out issues, watches his back" by Zachary Coile, www.sfgate.com. May 14, 2007.

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• I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

  Jerry McNerney

  Years, Kind

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• All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Writing, Sadness

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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.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Art, Children, School

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• The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Opportunity, Skills, Able

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• The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Tunes, Patterns, Reason Why

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• I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

  Jack Dorsey

  Art, Thinking, Doe

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• I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Home, Pace, Geography

  "A Brand ‘New World’ for Q'Orianka Kilcher". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

  Serge Haroche

  School, Use, Hard

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• Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

  David Harsanyi

  Children, Thinking, Steps

  "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

  Conan O'Brien

  President, Opponents, Nicknames

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• When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

  Shane Carruth

  Beautiful, Really Beautiful, Sheer

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• I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.

  Shane Carruth

  Writing, Together, Different

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• I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

  Shane Carruth

  School, Texas, Degrees

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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.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

  David Foster Wallace

  Psychology, Important, Development

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

  Bill Gates

  Class, Textbooks, Tests

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