#maths

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#impossibility #impossible #maths #nature #possibility

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ↗

— John von Neumann

#math #maths #life

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths? ↗

— Greg Curtis

#language #maths #math

On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as “bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity. ↗

— David Wells

#maths #nasa #science #science

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#humour #iq-tests #maths #math

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#first #first of all #good #high #i

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#maths #sex #equality

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#easy #find #football #games #good

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#close #done #feel #get #got

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#enjoyed #geometry #i #maths #slow