Quotes by Math If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key? Nick Carter keyssuccessfulmath The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical. Nicolas Winding Refn mathpeopleart He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. Niels Henrik Abel trackmathtails By studying the masters and not their pupils. Niels Henrik Abel abelmathscience 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 careersmathschool There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. Nikolai Lobachevsky realmathscience Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when we solve long division problems. However, if we deliberated every time we acted we would never get through the day. Most of the time, we act for reasons without deliberation. I am not just talking about cases of simple, habitual action, like brushing your teeth, but also about more sophisticated action. Nomy Arpaly simplemathlong Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. Norbert Wiener futureprogressmath In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it. Norm MacDonald stupidmathteacher The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. Norbert Wiener logicfieldsmath A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes. Norbert Wiener engineeringmathscience The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. Norbert Wiener gamesmathsuccess 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 mathrealityart Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three. Norman Cousins personalitymathtwo Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens. Norman Ralph Augustine citizensmathscience You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose. Nora Roberts carterarguingmath Mathematics is the Life of the Gods. Novalis mathematicsmathlife Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. Ogyu Sorai achievementmathreality I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region. Oleg Deripaska disciplinewinningmath 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 creativitymaththinking«5152535455565758596061»
