Jessi Combs Quotes

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I do think in numbers. My mind works that way.

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

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.