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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. -- Danica McKellar
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade. -- Rob Brydon
Math is easy; design is hard. -- Jeffrey Veen
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Math is one of my favorite subjects. -- Macaulay Culkin
Math is the language of the universe. -- Lucas Grabeel
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns. -- Ronald Graham
If Math was a woman, we'd be married already. -- Mark Gonzales
I like Math because there's only one right answer. -- Brendan Fehr
Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater. -- Jason Earles
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. -- Maya Lin
No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard. -- Richard Kadrey
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, I'm perfect. -- Judah Friedlander
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect. -- Judah Friedlander
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. -- Danica McKellar
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. -- Alan Cohen
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure. -- Stephen Sondheim
Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering. -- Danica McKellar
Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you. -- Audrey MacLean
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. -- Rick Bayan
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. -- Danica McKellar
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. -- Calvin Trillin
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide. -- William Thurston
Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. -- Robert Scoble
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it. -- Stephen Sondheim
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
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on. -- Paul Lockhart
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms. -- Shelly Crane
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. -- Lauren Stamile
Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater -- Lisa McMann
And the only answer I know isThat no child should give up on life.Math deals in absolutes.But life is the most absolute of all. -- Terri Fields
Here's the thing. Math and I broke up two years ago, and now whenever we get together it's just weird and awkward for both of us. -- Sariah Wilson
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
Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -- Margaret Mead
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math. -- John Maeda
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four. -- Dakota Blue Richards
I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women. -- Ally Carter
Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do. -- Dirk Jan Struik
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal). -- Swami Vivekananda
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.' -- John Maeda
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity. -- George Gamow
Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening. -- Henry Winkler
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one. -- Mickey Hart
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality. -- James Key
Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right? -- Seth Numrich
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math. -- Tom Lehrer
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
You Can't Plan the Kind of Deep Love That Results in Children. Fatherhood Was Not a Conscious Decision. It Was Part of the Wonderful Ride I Was on. It Was Destiny; Kismet. All the Math Finally Worked. -- Johnny Depp
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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
Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts. -- Bill Cosby
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education. -- Ian Harding
God ever arithmetizes. -- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
With me, everything turns into mathematics. -- Rene Descartes
Where there is matter, there is geometry. -- Johannes Kepler
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. -- Bertrand Russell
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. -- Albert Einstein
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? -- Sydney Smith
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. -- David Chang
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. -- Homer
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. -- Leopold Kronecker
In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money. -- French Montana
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. -- Joseph Fourier
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man. -- Wallace B. Smith
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. -- Isaac Newton
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. -- Hermann Weyl
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. -- Peter Lynch
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. -- John von Neumann
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. -- Bruno Mars
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college. -- Danica McKellar
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. -- Jodi Rell
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance. -- Ken Robinson
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. -- Leo Tolstoy
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy. -- Shaun White
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. -- John Glenn
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. -- Bertrand Russell
Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. -- Malcolm X
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush. -- Danica McKellar
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change. -- Danica McKellar
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. -- Michael Moritz
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern. -- Lynn Steen
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. -- Danica McKellar
Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. -- Ben Quayle
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. -- Carl Sandburg
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. -- Stephen Hawking
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. -- Cam Newton
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. -- Seth Shostak
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow. -- Danica McKellar
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard. -- Danica McKellar
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. -- J. C. Chandor
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. -- Bill Gates
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person. -- Bonnie Raitt
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. -- Frank Ocean
My best subjects were chemistry and math. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I just am not good at math. -- Phil McGraw
There's math, and everything else is debatable! -- Chris Rock
I am better at math than spelling. -- Spike Jonze
My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math. -- Charlie Sheen
I was particularly good at math and science. -- William Standish Knowles
I was told there would be no math -- Chip Kell
This is not class warfare -- it's math. -- Barack Obama
I just love math and most people don't. -- Danica McKellar
I was just kind of doing the math. -- Clayton Kershaw
No one wants to read a math book. -- Erin Duffy
Where there is no math, there is no freedom. -- Edward Frenkel
In the end, climate change is a math problem. -- Bill McKibben
100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math. -- Demetri Martin
I was a mathematics major and really into math. -- Mary Callahan Erdoes
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation. -- Richard P. Feynman
You can't hide secrets from the future with math. -- MC Frontalot
You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose. -- Nora Roberts
Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid. -- Larry Ellison

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