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Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. -- Conrad Wolfram
Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man. -- Shakuntala Devi
I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths. -- Charlie Simpson
Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school. -- David Beckham
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance. -- Maureen Johnson
It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly. -- Evanna Lynch
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. -- Ken Robinson
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. -- Shakira
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. -- Gary Lineker
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
When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think. -- Daniel Tammet
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. -- Mark Haddon
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
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. -- James Dyson
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
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from. -- Michael Moritz
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects. -- Bruce Dickinson
I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher! -- Shakuntala Devi
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. -- Peter Wright
I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results. -- Shakuntala Devi
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside. -- Tom Hodgkinson
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came. -- Rebel Wilson
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. -- Nick Denton
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. -- Idris Elba
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school. -- Willow Smith
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods. -- Rachel Cusk
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it. -- Matteo Manassero
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
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time. -- Marcus du Sautoy
I was very good in all the maths and sciences. -- Tamara Tunie
I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. -- Liam Neeson
I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. -- Michelle Dockery
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths. -- Harry Styles
Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world -- Eric Thomas
Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. -- Louise Rennison
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end -- Mark Haddon
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows. -- Gordon Brown
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius. -- Matt Dallas
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. -- Marjane Satrapi
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. -- Nicholas Stern
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment. -- Alastair Reynolds
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. -- Nick Davies
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes. -- Scarlett Thomas
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths. -- Michelle Paver
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything. -- Lisa Kleypas
I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest. -- Amy Childs

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