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• I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Reason

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

  Edward de Bono

  Education, Teaching, People

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Money, Work

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

  Anthony Doerr

  Science, Thinking, Numbers

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

  Ronald Graham

  Science, Should Have, Proof

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• What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.

  Jim Propp

  Science, Ideas, Progress

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• Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

  Philip J. Hanlon

  Science, Thinking, Today

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• ... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

  John Horton Conway

  Science, Numbers, Playing Games

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• Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Important, Done, Alive

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 05, 2014

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• Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.

  John Derbyshire

  Beauty, Numbers, People

  John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press

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• The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

  Frank Scoblete

  Believe, Mean, Magic

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• I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Thinking, Together

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

  Heidi

  Eye, Blue, Four

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• Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Simple, Community

  Ed Stetzer, Eric Geiger (2014). “Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups”, p.168, B&H Publishing Group

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• You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Attitude, Believe

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• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

  Wesley Pruden

  Thinking, Government, Work Out

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Years, Transition

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• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  Charlotte Moss

  Games, Design, Decorating

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• Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

  Calvin Trillin

  Teacher, Answers, Convince

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• A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

  Kristoffer Polaha

  Tv Shows, Magic, Hollywood

  "Kris Polaha Goes Intergalactic to Make Life Unexpected a Hit". www.eonline.com. September 21, 2010.

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• MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Kids, Parent, Important

  Source: deadline.com

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• I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.

  Jeff Kendrick

  Mind, Musician, World

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• I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

  Morgan Freeman

  Teacher, Actors, Students

  "Morgan Freeman Talks ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR, His Narration Process, Science, LIFE ITSELF, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

  Rachel Maddow

  Goal, Different, Achieve

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January 2009.

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