Cold Corners

We boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no royal road to geometry. - Euclid

Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? - George Carlin

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. - Henry Smith

A college education shows a man how little other people know. - T.C. Hailburton

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell

Well, another day has passed and I didn't use Algebra once. - Unknown

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

I love Halloween: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner. - Evan Peters

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. - Nick Cave

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving. - Amit Ray

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. - Eric Idle

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation. - Paul Feig

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life. - Willard Gaylin

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. - Thomas Huxley

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us. - Suze Orman

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

Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. - Plato

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. - Thomas Mann

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. - Malaika A. Khan