Norm MacDonald Quotes

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

I love math.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

Maths is the language of science.

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

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

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions

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

The teacher ought also to be specially on his guard against taking unfair advantage of the student’s immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher’s own opinions before the student has had an opportunity fairly to examine other opinions upon the matters in question, and before he has sufficient knowledge and ripeness of judgment to be entitled to form any definitive opinion of his own.