Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

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

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.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

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

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

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

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

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

...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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.