Quotes about Math

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Math makes sense when you apply it to projects.

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.