Math Quotes - Page 36

• I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creativity, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

  Lydia Davis

  Principles, Abstract, Inevitable

  Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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• The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Keys, Dragons

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• Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it."

  George Lucas

  Stars, Fun, War

  Source: www.boston.com

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• The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy and chemistry and I continued to study those subjects through high school and college on into graduate school. That's what prepared me for being an astronaut; it actually gave me the qualifications to be selected to be an astronaut.

  Sally Ride

  School, College, Important

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe will be reduced down to a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long. But leaves the final question, where did that one inch equation come from?

  Michio Kaku

  Law, Long, Humanity

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• I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

  Bo Burnham

  Philosophy, School, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 20, 2013.

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• As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

  Mark Cuban

  Unique, Medicine, Able

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

  Meryl Streep

  Teacher, School, Remembers Everything

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• Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.

  Deborah Meier

  School, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.

  Tony Kushner

  Growing Up, Reading, Kids

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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• I used to be jealous; I'm not jealous anymore. And a miracle happened to me, because if you're jealous, it's a cancer, it's a plague on your spirit, it really is. And I actually cured jealousy in a very weird way - I cured it with mathematics. And I'm not a math person at all, but I've been with my wife for about seven years, so we have had sex probably, I'd like to think, like, 9 million times or, at least, 1,500. So, the way I figured it, if she goes out and screws some other guy once - I'm still winning.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Sex, Cancer

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• My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

  James Arthur

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Iran

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Girl, Art, Writing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

  Bjork

  Girl, Boys, Nerd

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.

  Peter Andre

  Drama, Funny Things, World

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

  Ian Stewart

  Art, Real, Eye

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• Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

  Steven Wright

  Funny Motivational, Teaching, People

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• Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

  John Madden

  Funny, Real, Nfl

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• There are no sects in geometry.

  Voltaire

  Geometry, Sects, Mathematics

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.131, Penguin

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• The more you know, the less sure you are.

  Voltaire

  Mathematical, Math And Science, Knows

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• And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

  Francis Bacon

  Failure, May, Statistics

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

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• Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

  John Gay

  Men, Views, Statistics

  John Gay: Poetry and Prose Fables The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody 1. 1

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