How Can This Be True, Math Nerds?

Math research is more like a marathon. - Terence Tao

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? - George Carlin

I go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

Academy: A modern school where football is taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bison: What you say when your child leaves for school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

I am an expert in Higher Level Math: You + God = Enough - Zig Ziglar

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

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

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner

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

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann

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

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

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

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

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus

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

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation. - Mark Batterson

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

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