Jane Goodall Quotes

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

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

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

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

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I'm not a math-head.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.