Math Quotes - Page 38

• I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Parent, Compromise, Wanted

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.

  Laura Owens

  School, Artist, Rocks

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

  John Collison

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Stars, Ocean, Sky

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books

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• I was told there would be no math

  Chip Kell

  Would Be

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• I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Responsibility, Race, Racism

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Class, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

  Jenna Elfman

  Teacher, Mouths, Grades

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• Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

  Harry Styles

  School, Wish, Uniforms

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2013

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• It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

  William Raspberry

  Mistake, Understanding, Courses

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• Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Teaching, Thinking, Hands

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• I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths GCSE – I really liked it and got an A – so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn’t have a clue.

  Nikki Sanderson

  School, Careers, Paper

  "Nikki Sanderson: 'I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got'". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 2, 2008.

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• When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

  Chris Bosh

  School, Age, Favorite Subject

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• There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Ideas, Mind

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.

  Edward Frenkel

  Art, School, Eye

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• In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

  Niall Ferguson

  Want, Firsts, Financial

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Practice

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

  Douglas Conant

  Communication, Issues, People

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• We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

  Shelley Berman

  Reading, Writing, Democracy

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• There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

  Norman Foster

  Art, Reality, Engineering

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• It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Believe

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• What's all this whining about the environment? They're always talking about 'stop the clearcuts.' I mean do the math people. If we were out of trees then we wouldn't have any clearcuts to be complaining about now would we?

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

  Jon Stewart

  Als, Administration, Logic

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• I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I
  understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was
  wrong. I should have done it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Engineering, Should Have, Done

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