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When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

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.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

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.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

I just love math and most people don't.

If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

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.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

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.

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.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

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.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

One of the main reasons we're sending him here (St. Phil) is to give him the best chance to get into the Math and Science Center.

On our farm here, we're using about (12,000) to 15,000 gallons a year. You can do the math on that. It's a substantial increase in money.

I grew up in space times. In seventh grade, my teacher said we had to do math and science because the Russians were beating us in the space race. It was a real catalyst. I wish we had something like that today.

I would have to have someone kind of do the math for me and tell me, explain to me, how it would be a better deal. Show me how it would lower my monthly payment, ... Any change would be welcome.

One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so strong in math and science. She excelled.

My heart started pounding and the adrenalin was pumping. I did the math and I worked out if we get this there is no way we are losing now.

(Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was missing the first month of school competing in tournaments. I congratulated her on the U.S. Open and she said the experience was amazing. She really wanted to win.

More math would give us an advantage in the future with jobs.

Poker is both math and instinct, and CEOs understand the bottom line and the odds. But knowing the numbers is not enough, they have to know how to read people, something they do every day in the boardroom.

I don't feel guilty about it at all. After I've done all my math and science classes and all the English papers I've written, I'm more than happy just to kick back.

If we have a first grader and they are late 50 times and they come in at 8:15 a.m., they have missed 12 and a half hours of school. As a first grader, reading is crucial for them and we've lost that time. We can hold them in at recess and do interventions, but that's not (fun for the child). We have older students that come in an hour and a half late. Do the math on that one. Plus, they are missing math first thing in the morning.

Look, they just went ahead. The math showed we have to win our final four, and they have to go 2-3 in their last five. We're confident that we can do our part. But we're depending on another team to step up.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Sixty percent of our general budget goes to education. It would be ironic if electronic commerce erodes the science and math education that the visionary leaders of tomorrow need to keep this industry going.

Many of my students are now looking to the high school level, and this competition has inspired them to continue with their interest in math. Math is going to be even more import as we get further into the technology age.

Many of our experienced employees have math and science backgrounds and have made it clear that when they are ready to leave IBM they aren't ready to stop contributing.

So for every four weeks they delay, they lose 80 million dollars, and you can do the math from here.

Simple math tells you that's a losing proposition for me.

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

Kids love it. They get learning experiences out of it. They learn what having a job is. What responsibility is. How that math lesson you hate to do will come in handy.

Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

From a practical aspect, when you do the math the hybrid alternative is not always best financial choice because they cost more, and so a smaller car with a fuel economy of 30 miles per gallon is an attractive alternative, especially in urban areas.

I got better in math and reading after I got a mentor. My mentor talks to me about everything. He plays basketball with me in the gym, too.

I encourage their parents to take them to L.A., if possible. The state fair inspires many to pursue careers in math and the sciences.

For there to be a major shift in the industry, prices have to go well above $3 a gallon and remain there consistently. If you do the math it's still going to take many, many years to recoup your extra price through gas savings.

I don't think we've ever passed the math portion. This is the first time (the district) has ever met both the objectives,

I don't believe too much in averages. Only in math class.

Having as much math as possible leaves doors open for the future.

We're of course dazzled by his intelligence. This is a guy who we hired as a math teacher who is brilliant with words and crossword puzzles. For a school like Choate, it's great to see someone range across disciplines with the quality of mind that he has.

He was a well-liked student with lots of friends. He was a good math student and a good chess player.

He would come by daily to do extra work to develop the math skills he needed for the military.

Going by the test results it's showing that it's not doing the job. We knew math was lacking so we addressed that. We'd like to see to English now.

The people that are claiming that it's going to end before 11 o'clock, I don't know what kind of math they're doing. It's disappointing.

The people in charge of the program wanted to encourage kids to pursue math at the middle school level. And the competition is designed by engineers to fill a gap that they were seeing.

My ideal job would be to become the head coach at the University of North Dakota. I'd love to be a high school math teacher and coach. I'd like to stay in hockey and help kids try to move on.

Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term, ... It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.

Math and science and special education, those are the areas that are very difficult to fill.

Math and science are the foundation for engineering. That's the basis for technical development.

Math and science are the life blood of the future.

Math continues to be the biggest challenge, as with every district in Washington. Our biggest challenge, probably at this point, is math at grade 10.

Math gives me satisfaction, to solve things. I don't like easy classes. It is tedious. I like to solve things and knowing that things can be solved. Whenever it involves some kind of science or logic, I'm good at it.

Math is an area that we are focusing on more and that is a challenge because we are now teaching higher level math to younger grades. Next year will be a better reflection of the results that we will achieve through new math programs we put in place this year.

Math is his favorite subject. That is the one he makes the best grades in. I went today to get home schooling information for him.

Math is kind of hard for me to understand. If I go over it a lot of times, I get it.

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

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?

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Physics and computer science help in the programming aspects of making a game. Math helps in balancing game-play and making rules and fine art is obviously helpful in just making a game look good.