How Can This Be True, Math Nerds?

There is no royal road to geometry. - Euclid

The X-Files: The mystery of algebra - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Math research is more like a marathon. - Terence Tao

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? - George Carlin

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

Algebra: Undergarment worn by female math teachers - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson

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

Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown

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

Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated. - R. Drabek

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

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

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

High school is a lot like toilet paper: you only miss it when it's gone. - Unknown

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein

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

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain

There are 3 kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math, and those who aren't. - Unknown

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Aftermath: 1. The period following algebra; 2. The horrible headache you have when you've finished the algebra test. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi. - William L Schaaf

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. - Robert Lanza

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

Doctors are saying that each piece of bacon you eat takes 9 minutes off of your life. Based on that math, I should have died in 1732. - Unknown

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

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

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner

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