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“My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.”

Years Together Training Math Academic Formal Thrilling Tutorial

Author:Ann Druyan

“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.”

Ifs Years Looks Ends Government Social Numbers Security Filled Math Spending Discussion Fund Social Security Trust Funds

Author:Ben Quayle

“I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”

Knows Mathematics Suicide Math Commit

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“God ever arithmetizes.”

Mathematics Math Mathematical

Author:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

“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.”

“Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.”

Today School America Half Technology Degrees Percent China Math Pursue Usa Engineering Undergraduate Science Technology

Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.”

College Higher Majors Math Sat English Major

Author:Christie Hefner

“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!”

Said Faces Mom Math Hated

Author:Clare B. Dunkle

“What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.”

Age Culture Language Race Fans Shapes Universal Size Gender Math Backgrounds Universal Language

Author:David Krumholtz

“I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.”

Strong Math Physics Very Strong Calculus

Author:Debi Thomas

“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.”

People Thinking Knows Hard Kids School Jobs Opportunity Interesting Study Groups Particular Hard Work Math Engineering Select Math And Science Good Education Good Opportunity

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.”

Two Opinion Path Pieces Four Arms Fellows Humble Math Spit Dressed Up Impudence

Book:The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.”

Mean Development Concepts Mathematics Definitions Math Consistent Precise Linked

Author:Georg Cantor

“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.”

Want Years Mind My Own Half Study Changed Math Physics I Realized Composer Never Change Half A Year

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.”

Writing Used Worst Subjects Figures My Favorite Math Intrigue Math Love Math And Love Favorite Subject

Author:Herschel Walker

“One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.”

“I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.”

Strong Math Suits Formulas Dyslexic

Author:James Van Der Beek

“I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”

People Way Believe Mother Opinion Roles Democracy Infinite Don't Believe Math Clever Collectives Rejected Mother Nature Very Clever

Author:Janna Levin

“The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.”

Children Left President Party Behinds Leader Cutting Students Add Congress Math Billions Fund Left Behind Math And Science No Child Left Behind

Author:Jim Clyburn

“If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.”

Ifs Has Beens Able Chance Decision Player Figures Baseball Math Tennis Makers Versus Baseball Player Ranking Tennis Player Decision Makers

Author:Jim Courier

“You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.”

Knows Teacher Mom My Mom Math Math Teacher

Author:Joan Cusack

“My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.”

Thinking Important Blood Dad Method My Dad Math Backgrounds Physicist Scientific Method

Author:John Astin

“Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do.”

Running Kids Interest Acting Mines Decided Math

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.”

Looks Important Different Helping Break Subjects Missing Offers Music Is Math Sat Etc Stressful Stressful Day

Author:Justin Guarini

“If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.”

Ifs Might Waiting Five Depends Skills Percent Math Seventies Waiter Math Skills

Author:Kelly Ripa

“...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.”

Mean Math Proof Consistency Inference

Author:Kurt Gödel

“I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.”

Bigs Grows Interest Growing Up Math Math And Science

Author:Linda M. Godwin

“The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.”

Years School Reading Results Students Performances Average Math Just One Strongest Texas Florida Charter Charter Schools

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.”

Math Unusual Math And Science Undesirable

Author:Marissa Mayer

“Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.”

People Should Helping Names Causes Wonderful Trouble Dog Mines Strange Difficulty Salvation Work Out Math Sufficient Damage Onions Desolation

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.”

Way Wells Enough Helping School Father Computer High School Very Good Math Bunch Fortunate Fascinated Exposure 1960s

Author:Mitchell Kapor

“I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.”

Children I Can Helping Half Married Math Grades Vocabulary Being Married

Author:Patrick Warburton

“[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.”

Purpose Teacher Students Tests Math Obsessed Curriculum Jargon Nomenclature

Author:Paul Lockhart

“The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.”

Want Feels Kind I Can Feelings Might Games Chance Secret Divine Messages Structure Math Revelations I Want You Glimpse Divine Revelation

Author:Paul Lockhart

“Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.”

Giving Universe Give Me Math Extensions Constructs

Author:Rene Descartes

“Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package."”

Ifs Said Sometimes Done Study Math Packages Symbolic Andrew Algebra Another Time Ramanujan

Book:The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Source: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.”

Mathematics Math

Author:Roger Bacon

“...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.”

World Principles Mathematics Math Mathematical

Book:Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world

“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”

Numbers Weight Math

Author:Isaac Newton

“The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Facts Work Math Programming Symbolic

Author:Stephen Wolfram

“I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.”

Wanted Skills Scientist Math Math Skills

Author:Terri Windling

“Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.”

Ifs Country Use Can Do Space Growing Internet Needed Thirds China Math Just One Addresses Usage

Author:Vinton Cerf

“Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.”

People Years Next Incredibles Math

Author:Willard Scott

“I was particularly good at math and science.”

Math Math And Science

Author:William Standish Knowles

“Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.”

Long Study Involved Forgotten Math Backgrounds

Author:William Standish Knowles

“... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.”

Men Years Has Beens Left Mathematics Math Mathematical Occupation Measurement Decimals

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.”

Men Truth Lasts Knowledge Mathematics Errors Definitions Math Mathematical Absurdity Reckoning

Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition

“I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.”

Way Has Beens Able School Goes On Paid Math My Way Department Graduates Fellowship Graduate School Princeton Undergraduate

Author:Alonzo Church

“We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)”

Planets Protect Math Fuel Ceo Fossils Fossil Fuel Save The Planet

Author:Bill McKibben

“Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.”

Age Youth Trade Math

Author:Brad Pitt

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