Billy Connolly Quotes

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?

What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

All science requires mathematics.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right